Video Widget

[Dean Roddey]

So what is the cheapest camera I could get that we know for sure would work in the same way as the ones you guys are using? It would be very helpful to have a means to try it out here.

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I use Q-See (rebranded Dahua). Happy to send you one.

Mark

[Dean Roddey]

Does it need any sort of infrastructure, or is it just a standalone thingie? It would be best probably to have one I could keep around for retesting though.

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Does it need any sort of infrastructure, or is it just a standalone thingie? It would be best probably to have one I could keep around for retesting though.

stand alone camera you could have on permanent loan. It can also interface with their NVR but that's not required.

[Dean Roddey]

What specifically is the model, so I could go poke around about it a bit?

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QCN7001B
I'm in the process of upgrading from these 720p to higher res models however they are very similar as far as interface.

http://qsee.custhelp.com/ci/fattach/get/...-1_web.pdf

[Dean Roddey]

Have you looked through this document?

https://qsee.custhelp.com/ci/fattach/get...tup(1).pdf

It talks about how to use their cameras with RTSP, and describes the RTSP URL you'd have to use. It would still, presumably, require you install an RTSP source filter for Windows to use. But it provides the info you need to create the right type of URL.

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Have you looked through this document?

https://qsee.custhelp.com/ci/fattach/get...tup(1).pdf

It talks about how to use their cameras with RTSP, and describes the RTSP URL you'd have to use. It would still, presumably, require you install an RTSP source filter for Windows to use. But it provides the info you need to create the right type of URL.

Yes, I can stream within VLC but that's not what I'm looking to do. I think the bolded part above is where I'm lost.

[Dean Roddey]

See the discussions up earlier in this thread. Apparently Windows doesn't include a Direct Show source filter for RTSP. So when you send an RTSP URL to the web widget, presumably it tries to create a DirectShow filter graph and can't find any source filter for that. Source filters are the ones that deal with actually getting the data from whatever it comes from, and then making it available to the next filter in the graph in some negotiated way.

I provided some links to some RTSP DirectShow filters earlier in this thread. Once one of those is installed, theoretically, DirectShow will find a handler for RTSP sourced content and be able to build a filter graph and process the data.

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thanks Dean, I'll review and give this a try.