Live video from a IPC-HFW5231E-Z12E works in Chrome!

[wrybread]

I'm a long time user of multiple Dahua SD49225T-HN cameras, through various firmwares, and by now I'm used to having to jump through hoops to get the live video feed to work in the web interface. Digging up that old version of Internet Explorer, trying various sketchy plugins for Chrome and Firefox that almost never work... But I just got a Dahua IPC-HFW5231E-Z12E and to my surprise the live video works beautifully in Chrome! Across multiple OS's! So far I've tried Win7, Linux Mint and Android, all working beautifully with no plugin required.

Other than that the web interface looks exactly the same.

The cameras are using slightly different video encoding, the one working in Chrome is using "H.264H" while the other is using "H.264". The only hits I find for H264H on Google are for Dahua products...

Looking at the webpage source they're displaying the video differently. The working camera (Z12E) is using an HTML5 canvas, while the SD49225T is using plain video tags.

I wonder if it's just a question of updating their admin webpage?

Does anyone have their SD49225T-HN working in Chrome? I think I'm one firmware behind.

And for the geeks in the audience, here's the HTML code for the non working camera:

<div id="video" style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: absolute; top: 99px; width: 1391px; height: 392px; left: 15px; z-index: 10002;"><div class="download-plugin" style="margin-top: -16px"> <a href="NACL Web Plug-in" target="_download"> <span class="download-plugin-icon"></span> <span t="w_no_plugins">Please click here to download and install the plug-in.</span></a> </div></div>

And the working camera:

<div id="hlsvideo" style="background: rgb(0, 0, 0); position: absolute; top: -10000px; width: 1px; height: 1px; display: none;"><div id="videoLoading" class="video_loading" style="display: none;"><img src="image/videoLoading.gif"></div><div id="videoFull" class="video_full" style="display:none" t="com.ResLimOpenVideoFailTip">Resource is limited, open video failed!</div></div>

<canvas id="canvas" style="position: absolute; top: 99px; left: 451.556px; z-index: 10004; width: 696.889px; height: 392px;" width="1092" height="614"></canvas>

 

[IAmATeaf]

From what I know this is entirely dependent upon the firmware. My 5231-ZE cams don’t need a plugin to get the live feed in Chrome but with a recent firmware update now ask for it in IE. With the previous firmware both Chrome and IE didn’t prompt for a plug-in and live feed just worked.