Hikvision Camera

[budski]

Hi, i recently acquired a Hikvision camera and i am trying to use the RVMedia components with it. has anybody else used these components with a Hikvision camera? i can see in the demo that it works with axis and panasonic cameras but i cannot get it to work with a hikvision camera. any help would be much appreciated!

[Sergey Tkachenko]

Is there any documentation for this camera, explaining how to get URL of video stream if you know the camera IP address?

[budski]

Hi, no there is not. the documentation that came with the camera is really poor. That's why i have been hunting on the web and asking on forums if anyone else has done anything like this before?

[Sergey Tkachenko]

If this camera is a clone of some camera by a major manufacturer, or at least it uses the same programming API, it can be detected and used by RVMedia (as a camera of another manufacturer).

But if this camera produces not MJpeg, but H264 video stream, RVMedia may be able to detect it only if FFmpeg is available for the application.

[Tamas]

Hi Budski,

Did you get HIKVISON camera working with RVMedia component because we are hoping to do this for an upcoming project.

Regards
Tamas

[Sergey Tkachenko]

In the current release of RVMedia (which will be uploaded when we finish testing it), we implemented a special support only for one additional type of cameras: H.264 Foscam cameras (they changed protocol significantly).

As for HIKVISION cameras, sorry, I cannot say if it supported or not.
If you have a specification of commands for this camera, please send it to me (richviewgmailcom), and I will be able to answer.

There are 3 levels of support possible:
- support for administration and movement
- camera detection (you specify CameraHost:CameraPort, and TRVCamera finds video URL)
- displaying video, if the exact video URL is specified (all cameras producing MJPEG and H.264 video streams are supported in this way)