HTTP video stream

[m.versteegh]

I tried to access a stream using http://ip:80/Streaming/channels/1/preview?auth=dGVzdDp0ZXN0
(user: test, pass:test). This resulted in:

[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=dejavu sans mono]<ResponseStatus xmlns="http://www.hikvision.com/ver10/XMLSchema" version="1.0">[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=dejavu sans mono]<requestURL>/Streaming/channels/1/preview</requestURL>[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=dejavu sans mono]<statusCode>4</statusCode>[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=dejavu sans mono]<statusString>Invalid Operation</statusString>[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=dejavu sans mono]</ResponseStatus>[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]

Which URL should I use to access a live stream using http?

 

[bp2008]

The only method I know of for pulling video by http is the very old-fashioned JPEG refresh method. You can get a JPEG still image here: http://ip:80/Streaming/channels/1/picture but you must refresh it yourself.

Unfortunately, the maximum frame rate you can achieve with this is about 1 FPS and last I checked, multiple users cannot access it and will get error messages. If you need better than this, you will most likely need to run 3rd party software on your system. There are a lot of options for this. Blue Iris is good. If you are really competent with computers you could give my camera proxy app (linked in signature) a try. Or you could use VLC to re-stream the video as seen here: http://www.ipcamtalk.com/showthread.php?1395-How-to-Use-VLC-to-transcode-IP-video-to-an-HTML5-compatible-format&highlight=theora

It is also likely possible you can get the camera to stream MJPEG, though I have not tried this so I do not know how.