MJPG-streamer could not find output plugin output_http.so

I keep getting errors when trying to fire up mjpg-streamer so have been looking online all day and have yet to find a solution. The closest I thought I was is when someone mentioned needing mjpg-streamer-input-uvc which may or may not have helped but still have the problem.
The error seems to mention an http program but I don't install luci or anything else for GUI on this device and don't want any luci if possible.
I've never had to set any path in the past, or install anything else before, just mjpg-streamer and that would install everything it needed. Can someone shed some light on this.

Thank you.

Sun Jan 30 20:45:44 2022 kern.info kernel: [13077.560252] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Yuyama B910 cam (046d:083e)
Sun Jan 30 20:45:45 2022 kern.info kernel: [13077.985610] input: Yuyama B910 cam as /devices/platform/ahb/1b000000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.2/input/input0
Sun Jan 30 20:45:45 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29407]: starting application
Sun Jan 30 20:45:45 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29407]: MJPG Streamer Version.: 2.0
Sun Jan 30 20:45:45 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29407]: ERROR: could not find input plugin
Sun Jan 30 20:45:45 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29407]:        Perhaps you want to adjust the search path with:
Sun Jan 30 20:45:45 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29407]:        # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/plugin/folder
Sun Jan 30 20:45:45 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29407]:        dlopen: Error loading shared library input_uvc.so: No such file or directory
Sun Jan 30 20:45:45 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29461]: starting application
Sun Jan 30 20:45:45 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29461]: MJPG Streamer Version.: 2.0
Sun Jan 30 20:45:45 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29461]: ERROR: could not find input plugin
Sun Jan 30 20:45:45 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29461]:        Perhaps you want to adjust the search path with:
Sun Jan 30 20:45:45 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29461]:        # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/plugin/folder
Sun Jan 30 20:45:45 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29461]:        dlopen: Error loading shared library input_uvc.so: No such file or directory
Sun Jan 30 20:45:46 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29513]: starting application
Sun Jan 30 20:45:46 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29513]: MJPG Streamer Version.: 2.0
Sun Jan 30 20:45:46 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29513]: ERROR: could not find input plugin
Sun Jan 30 20:45:46 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29513]:        Perhaps you want to adjust the search path with:
Sun Jan 30 20:45:46 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29513]:        # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/plugin/folder
Sun Jan 30 20:45:46 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29513]:        dlopen: Error loading shared library input_uvc.so: No such file or directory
Sun Jan 30 20:45:46 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29568]: starting application
Sun Jan 30 20:45:46 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29568]: MJPG Streamer Version.: 2.0
Sun Jan 30 20:45:46 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29568]: ERROR: could not find input plugin
Sun Jan 30 20:45:46 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29568]:        Perhaps you want to adjust the search path with:
Sun Jan 30 20:45:46 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29568]:        # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/plugin/folder
Sun Jan 30 20:45:46 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29568]:        dlopen: Error loading shared library input_uvc.so: No such file or directory
Sun Jan 30 20:47:15 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29812]: starting application
Sun Jan 30 20:47:15 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29812]: MJPG Streamer Version.: 2.0
Sun Jan 30 20:47:15 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29812]: ERROR: could not find input plugin
Sun Jan 30 20:47:15 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29812]:        Perhaps you want to adjust the search path with:
Sun Jan 30 20:47:15 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29812]:        # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/plugin/folder
Sun Jan 30 20:47:15 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [29812]:        dlopen: Error loading shared library input_uvc.so: No such file or directory
Sun Jan 30 20:50:21 2022 kern.info kernel: [13353.996700] usb 1-1: reset high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-platform
Sun Jan 30 20:50:21 2022 kern.info kernel: [13354.434696] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Yuyama B910 cam (046d:083e)
Sun Jan 30 20:50:21 2022 kern.info kernel: [13354.844819] input: Yuyama B910 cam as /devices/platform/ahb/1b000000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.2/input/input1
Sun Jan 30 20:50:26 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [30256]: starting application
Sun Jan 30 20:50:26 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [30256]: MJPG Streamer Version.: 2.0
Sun Jan 30 20:50:26 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [30256]: ERROR: could not find input plugin
Sun Jan 30 20:50:26 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [30256]:        Perhaps you want to adjust the search path with:
Sun Jan 30 20:50:26 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [30256]:        # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/plugin/folder
Sun Jan 30 20:50:26 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [30256]:        dlopen: Error loading shared library input_uvc.so: No such file or directory
Sun Jan 30 21:08:36 2022 daemon.notice netifd: wan (1339): udhcpc: sending renew to 192.168.1.1
Sun Jan 30 21:08:36 2022 daemon.notice netifd: wan (1339): udhcpc: lease of 192.168.1.163 obtained, lease time 7200
Sun Jan 30 21:16:09 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [1261]: starting application
Sun Jan 30 21:16:09 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [1261]: MJPG Streamer Version.: 2.0
Sun Jan 30 21:16:09 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [1261]: ERROR: could not find input plugin
Sun Jan 30 21:16:09 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [1261]:        Perhaps you want to adjust the search path with:
Sun Jan 30 21:16:09 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [1261]:        # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/plugin/folder
Sun Jan 30 21:16:09 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [1261]:        dlopen: Error loading shared library input_uvc.so: No such file or directory
Sun Jan 30 21:17:42 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [1553]: starting application
Sun Jan 30 21:17:42 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [1553]: MJPG Streamer Version.: 2.0
Sun Jan 30 21:17:42 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [1553]: Using V4L2 device.: /dev/video0
Sun Jan 30 21:17:42 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [1553]: Desired Resolution: 1024 x 768
Sun Jan 30 21:17:42 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [1553]: Frames Per Second.: 15
Sun Jan 30 21:17:42 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [1553]: Format............: JPEG
Sun Jan 30 21:17:42 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [1553]: TV-Norm...........: DEFAULT
Sun Jan 30 21:17:42 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [1553]: ERROR: could not find output plugin output_http.so
Sun Jan 30 21:17:42 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [1553]:        Perhaps you want to adjust the search path with:
Sun Jan 30 21:17:42 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [1553]:        # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/plugin/folder
Sun Jan 30 21:17:42 2022 user.info MJPG-streamer [1553]:        dlopen: Error loading shared library output_http.so: No such file or directory

See Can't use mjpg-streamer with latest version of OpenWrt 21.02! - #41 by micmac1

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Oh, that's kinda sad to hear. What are people moving to? This is so easy to install and use, it would be nice if it was maintained or updated.

not sure you understood the post in the link provided ... (or I didn't ? :wink: )

LOL, no, I'm a bit color blind and didn't even notice that was a link. I thought it was your reply. I'll look. Now that I looked at it, it's one I had found yesterday before posting which I wasn't able to use to find a solution. It seems like missing packages was being the problem. I'll look again.

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Oh, something different happened this time.

opkg install mjpg-streamer-input-uvc mjpg-streamer-output-http mjpg-streamer-www-simple

Yesterday, the http package was not found when I tried that. Now it's working.
Thanks for pointing me back to that link!

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