What's happening to my video? It's turning green.

[localdevjs]

Please see attached image, this green stuff has been appearing lately in my video. I've rebooted the device several times (power reset) and also tried playing with every video format and filtering type of thing I could find in the web interface (switching from h265 to h264 etc), nothing changes.

 

[wittaj]

That is usually a codec issue, especially if using a VMS system other than the brand of the camera.

Try H264 without any codec. Make sure you change mainstream and substream to match. Reboot after changing.

How are you watching and seeing this - with SD card or NVR or BI or something else? If something other than just the camera, reboot it as well after the change.

 

[localdevjs]

That is usually a codec issue, especially if using a VMS system other than the brand of the camera.

Try H264 without any codec. Make sure you change mainstream and substream to match. Reboot after changing.

How are you watching and seeing this - with SD card or NVR or BI or something else? If something other than just the camera, reboot it as well after the change.

I'm using tinyCam PRO on my android phone like I've been using for the last 8 months or so. I didn't change any settings on either the camera or tinyCam app and it was working perfectly for months until I just noticed this showing up the other day. I don't login to the camera every day so I don't know exactly when it first started.

Guess I can try to change the codec again and restart everything but I'm not hopeful.

Is there a way to get VLC to open the stream? I thought I had that working at one point but I forgot the URL and I remember it was complicated and finicky to create the first time.

 

[VorlonFrog]

I have an older 4231 wedge camera that was doing that frequently, and it was because I was rotating the image 90 degrees in Blue Iris, instead of in the camera's web UI. Disabled BI rotation, enabled camera rotation, problem disappeared.

 

[localdevjs]

Thanks guys. I found out how to use "ffplay" to view the camera remotely, and it looks perfectly on there while showing the green bar while connected using tinyCam on my phone at the same time. Looks like the problem might be on the tinyCam software and not the camera itself. False alarm, appreciate the replies!

 

[TonyR]

Is there a way to get VLC to open the stream? I thought I had that working at one point but I forgot the URL and I remember it was complicated and finicky to create the first time.

Just a FYI in case you still want to try VLC: the following URL should work with your Dahua cam. It's for the main stream but for sub stream make subtype=1. Place 2 "/" after "rtsp:" as forum software won't allow 2 to be shown consecutively:

rtsp:/username:password@Camera-IP:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0

 

[localdevjs]

Just a FYI in case you still want to try VLC: the following URL should work with your Dahua cam. It's for the main stream but for sub stream make subtype=1. Place 2 "/" after "rtsp:" as forum software won't allow 2 to be shown consecutively:

rtsp:/username:password@Camera-IP:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0

That's basically the URL I used for ffplay, it works perfectly there but VLC can't play it. Very odd. I'm on linux so maybe my version is missing a plugin or something.

 

[DeejayT]

Thanks guys. I found out how to use "ffplay" to view the camera remotely, and it looks perfectly on there while showing the green bar while connected using tinyCam on my phone at the same time. Looks like the problem might be on the tinyCam software and not the camera itself. False alarm, appreciate the replies!

Hi, I have the same problem with the green stripe on tinyCam.
I was able to solve it by switching from Hardware to Hardware+ under Codec in the video settings.

 

[localdevjs]

Hi, I have the same problem with the green stripe on tinyCam.
I was able to solve it by switching from Hardware to Hardware+ under Codec in the video settings.

That did the trick, thanks!