I made a better remote-live-view page [OLD]
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Yes, I believe you can use groups.htm for this.
Here is what I recommend:
1. First, go into Blue Iris and create two camera groups. One group for each of your monitors. Add the cameras you want on each monitor to the appropriate groups.
2. Set up groups.htm with those two groups, following the normal groups.html setup procedure.
3. Open groups.htm twice in separate windows, and switch to the second group in one of them.
Notice that the main Blue Iris applicaiton has a dropdown list where you can select a camera group, then click the gear icon and you will have the option to change the image resolution for the group. If you set this to match your monitor resolutions, you will have better image quality.
Here is what I recommend:
1. First, go into Blue Iris and create two camera groups. One group for each of your monitors. Add the cameras you want on each monitor to the appropriate groups.
2. Set up groups.htm with those two groups, following the normal groups.html setup procedure.
3. Open groups.htm twice in separate windows, and switch to the second group in one of them.
Notice that the main Blue Iris applicaiton has a dropdown list where you can select a camera group, then click the gear icon and you will have the option to change the image resolution for the group. If you set this to match your monitor resolutions, you will have better image quality.
thanks a lot bp! following your instructions, i got it setup now to display all my cameras on 2 monitors all cams style. for some reason though when i click a camera it doesn't go full screen? is that feature available on groups also, or did i miss something?
Are you sure you configured groups correctly? The configuration should contain the "short names" for the group and each of your cameras in the group. If you only put in the group names then it would appear to have no click-to-fullscreen feature.
got it! i knew i missed something. works great now, thanks again bp! you could really tell the difference in image quality compared to your other viewer written in java. the image on that one is much better. click to full-screen image quality looks great but small screen(all cam view) looks degraded. since i'm only using this on lan, is there a way to improve the image quality when its on all cam view?
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I have developed a new page which I call UI2.
UI2 is designed to surpass and replace all the other web interface pages.
Feedback is very welcome. Just reply to this thread.
The download link is the normal link, back in the first post: http://www.ipcamtalk.com/showthread.php?93-I-made-a-better-remote-live-view-page&p=422&viewfull=1#post422
UI2 is designed to surpass and replace all the other web interface pages.
- Click a camera to maximize its size
- Roll the mouse wheel to zoom in and out
- Collapse the Clip list for full-screen live viewing (press F11 to full-screen your browser too)
- Images are loaded at lower resolutions when appropriate to save bandwidth that would otherwise be wasted. Now has support for displays of non-standard DPI.
- Click a camera to full-screen it in full resolution. Click again to go back.
- All clips and alerts are shown with thumbnails.
- Get and set up to 20 presets (dependent on your PTZ cameras). Click to go to a preset. Long-click to set a preset.
- Each preset that you assign with UI2 gets a thumbnail stored for it, to help you remember what each preset is.
- html5 audio playback for camera audio. Currently only works with live video streams, and browser support varies.
- Some aspects of UI2 are configurable, with settings stored in your browser.
- Many more features planned.
Feedback is very welcome. Just reply to this thread.
The download link is the normal link, back in the first post: http://www.ipcamtalk.com/showthread.php?93-I-made-a-better-remote-live-view-page&p=422&viewfull=1#post422
Choppy video is a result of the underlying jpeg refresh scheme, and is especially noticable if you view with a high latency connection and/or low bandwidth. If you haven't updated Blue Iris recently, there were some very nice web server buffer changes which make it a lot better than before.
There are some alternative ways I could pull video, but none of them are ideal.
Blue Iris can feed me mjpeg streams, which work better on high latency, high bandwidth connections than normal jpeg refreshing. But the underlying technology is still jpeg compression so it isn't "real" video and it is inefficient as heck.
Blue Iris also has the option to pull a couple different formats of "real" video stream, which is what the activex viewer uses. If I wanted to introduce a dependency on a browser plugin, I could make this work similar to the activex viewer, minus the Internet Explorer requirement.
What I'd really like is for Blue Iris to produce one of the html5 video formats. The "raw h.264 stream" output doesn't work, and neither do any of the other documented video formats Blue Iris supports.
There are some alternative ways I could pull video, but none of them are ideal.
Blue Iris can feed me mjpeg streams, which work better on high latency, high bandwidth connections than normal jpeg refreshing. But the underlying technology is still jpeg compression so it isn't "real" video and it is inefficient as heck.
Blue Iris also has the option to pull a couple different formats of "real" video stream, which is what the activex viewer uses. If I wanted to introduce a dependency on a browser plugin, I could make this work similar to the activex viewer, minus the Internet Explorer requirement.
What I'd really like is for Blue Iris to produce one of the html5 video formats. The "raw h.264 stream" output doesn't work, and neither do any of the other documented video formats Blue Iris supports.
I'm sure it's there, and I'm just not seeing it, but... On the UI2.htm page, when I click on a clip, it starts to play as it should - but there is no scrubber or other controls to manipulate playback. Am I missing something, or is that a feature not yet implemented?
This is driving me mad. I had UI2 working perfectly (its fantastic BTW!!) , then i reformatted. Now whenever i connect locally or from an ip outside, i get this loading page. jpegpull.htm still works fine.
Anyone any ideas? I have tried overwriting the files again with a fresh version. no luck
edited to add that i tried http://localhost:81/ui2.htm and it works, but if i connect from the blue iris console using its ip, it doesn;t.
thanks
Avi
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I'm confused. At what point is it working? Try ctrl + F5 to force a full refresh. Otherwise it looks like you are missing some of the files.
I assumed files were missing, but as i said, connecting to localhost:81/ui2.htm worked.
Now.. bizarrely, ever since i connected to localhost on my machine, it now works fine using the full 192. x.x x url on that machine.
my ddns is having issues, so i'll get that working and try it again from my work pc.
thanks
Thanks for creating this bp2008 -- looks awesome!
One question -- is there a way to make the login page by default go to ui2.htm? Where could I edit login.htm to always refer the user to ui2.htm?
Or is that a bad idea?
Thanks.
One question -- is there a way to make the login page by default go to ui2.htm? Where could I edit login.htm to always refer the user to ui2.htm?
Or is that a bad idea?
Thanks.
You can set up the default page a user goes to in Blue Iris' user settings. Alternatively you can change the URL like this: http://blue_iris/login.htm?page=ui2.htm