# Pipe2jpeg - inject images separately?
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pipe2jpeg-inject-images-separately/98111
**Category:** General
**Created:** [13 July 2025 10:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pipe2jpeg-inject-images-separately/98111 "2025-07-13T10:51:44Z")
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### Author:  [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)
#### Post date: [13 July 2025 10:51 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pipe2jpeg-inject-images-separately/98111/1 "2025-07-13T10:51:44Z")
Perhaps @kevinGodell could provide some guidance.
Is it possible to inject a buffer into pipe2jpeg and have that become an endpoint with a 'video' stream ?
ie. I have a single image sitting in flow context as a buffer, this image changes every x minutes.
Can I inject this buffer (every second for example) directly into pipe2jpeg ? It does not seem to work, is there a way that i could 'emulate' this as a 'stream' ?
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### Author:  [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)
#### Post date: [13 July 2025 11:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pipe2jpeg-inject-images-separately/98111/2 "2025-07-13T11:34:29Z")
Ok found the method (i think), save the image to a file and use ffmpeg to feed it into pipe2jpeg
```auto
ffmpeg -re -loop 1 -i /path/image.jpg -f image2pipe -c mjpeg -t 00:02:00 pipe:1
```
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### Author:  [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)
#### Post date: [13 July 2025 13:17 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pipe2jpeg-inject-images-separately/98111/3 "2025-07-13T13:17:51Z")
I'm intrigued as to your use case, can you elaborate on what you are doing please ?
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### Author:  [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)
#### Post date: [14 July 2025 05:28 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pipe2jpeg-inject-images-separately/98111/4 "2025-07-14T05:28:05Z")
This is just some tomfoolery, bear with me :')
I create a webpage showing a chart, news headlines, or whatever I want.
Then use puppeteer to capture a screenshot of that webpage.
Feed the screenshot into pipe2jpeg to make it available as a stream.
This stream can be exposed to homekit (via homebridge) as a security camera:
:')
Now I could create my own 'live station' of data i want to show, i noticed that i can kill ffmpeg and restart with another file and the stream will get updated.
ie: charts in homekit 😆
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### Author:  [@Sean-McG](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Sean-McG)
#### Post date: [14 July 2025 22:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pipe2jpeg-inject-images-separately/98111/5 "2025-07-14T22:13:03Z")
Interesting idea, but this doesn't seem overly efficient for a static image, how about reducing the frame rate to 1 ?
```auto
ffmpeg -re -loop 1 -r 1 -i /path/image.jpg -f image2pipe -c mjpeg -t 00:02:00 pipe:1
```
Same effect but much less bandwidth 🤔
EDIT: Alternatively take a look at @BartButenaers node -
> **[node-red-contrib-multipart-stream-encoder](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-multipart-stream-encoder)**
>
> Node Red node for encoding multipart streams over http
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [12 October 2025 22:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/pipe2jpeg-inject-images-separately/98111/6 "2025-10-12T22:13:37Z")
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