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Title: URL to access video stream
Post by: eirav67 on August 23, 2013, 06:01:19 AM

Hi,
i'm facing a lot of difficulties in accessing directly to the video stream with third party applications like VLC and Ip Cam Viewer. After searching with google and capturing traffic generated from the admin interface I discovered these URL:

http://<ip.addr>:<port>/video/mjpg.cgi

This url seems to work but i was not able to select the video profile (I tried to add the profileid=X parameter to the url with no results)


http://<ip.addr>:<port>/image/jpeg.cgi

This works just fine and give you access to the single snapshot profile

http://<ip.addr>:<port>/video/ACVS-H264.cgi?profileid=1

This URL is the one used by the activex in the administration page, but i was not able to use it directly  in both VLC and ipcamviewer. Both of them show me a blank screen (no error, but no video).

I also tryed to access through RTSP, but it works only with the 3gpp url and only through UDP (this is a problem because i access it remotely through an ssh tunnel which works only with tcp connections)

rtsp://<ip.addr>:<port>/3gpp

Do you know what are the URL to access all the video profiles available ?
Does a more accurate documentation  on this camera exist?

Thank you in advance.

Title: Re: URL to access video stream
Post by: WolfKodi on October 04, 2013, 12:24:17 AM

rtsp://<ip_address>:554/play1.sdp
rtsp://<ip_address>:554/play2.sdp
rtsp://<ip_address>:554/play3.sdp

all works for me.

Title: Re: URL to access video stream
Post by: eirav67 on October 06, 2013, 01:20:34 AM

Hi,
your post gave me the idea that the problem could be in vlc so i  updated it and it works fine with type rtsp url.

RTSP streams however use udp packets while i also need a tcp only stream because of the ssh tunnel i'm using to connect to the camera. (Local lan connections of course work very well). There is a way to force the use of tcp with rtsp ? Or there are some other http url which i can use to access ALL the video profiles and not just the one made available through the url i have already posted ?

Title: Re: URL to access video stream
Post by: WolfKodi on October 06, 2013, 03:37:05 AM

http://www.wowza.com/forums/content.php?64

Title: Re: URL to access video stream
Post by: eirav67 on October 07, 2013, 03:32:29 AM

thank you very much!!!!

With the configuration you suggested VLC has used a tcp stream!

After using vlc i came back to play with ipcamviewer (android). On this app in the past I was able to:
- control and see the dlink camera through http, without the ability to select the video profile
- view all video profiles through rtsp, but only using UDP

Ipcamviewer has an option to force the use of tcp but, until now, it has not worked. Today i tried it again and it worked! I cannot say if this is due to a recent ipcamviewr update or if accessing via VLC i have someway unlocked the "tcp feature".

I will investigate further.

Thank you again

P.S. Have you ever used  ipcamviewer ?