i have octoprint on an ASUS laptop and want to use the built in webcam. i installed yawcam as instructed in "setting up on windows" guide, leaving everything default and turned on streaming and http.
i forwarded the ports in router. for <ip_of_your_pc>, it is the internal/local IP (eg 192.168...)
i turned off webcam control for bitdefender.
in octoprint, when i put in "http://<ip_of_your_pc>:8081/video.mjpg" for streaming and "http://<ip_of_your_pc>:8888/out.jpg" for snapshot/timelapse, the snapshot test will take a picture from camera, but the stream is not recognized. i have tried removing the "video.mjpg" from the address. this still does not work, but in the "control" window black screen where video should be, if i click on the "http://<ip_of_your_pc>:8081/" link, a browser window opens with the camera showing. (if i click on "http://<ip_of_your_pc>:8081/video.mjpg", the browser gives a 404 error and no camera shows).
when i test yawcam connection from the yawcam app, both ports show "OK".
there is a post (OctoPrint in Docker, snapshot works, stream doesn't) very similar to my problem except mine is on a windows pc.
i just installed for first time and have latest versions of everything (1.8.6)
octoprint-systeminfo-20221118154830.zip (31.5 KB)
could someone please suggest how i can get the streaming to work (eg what i am doing wrong 
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NOTE PROBLEM SOLVED: turns out that yawcam has a setting in the "output --> stream" section where you switch between "java" and "mjpg". it defaults to "java" but that setting is not mentioned in the guide. changing it to "mjpg" fixes the problem.
