Streaming your Network Camera with Windows Media Player

[vivotek]

Hello,

I want to obtain the video streaming from a Vivotek PZ6114/6124 camera. The camera provides a UDP video streaming port : 5003, but i can't connect to it. I am not even sure that the connection to this port will provide me the video streaming.
I succeded conecting to the camera and give it different commands. But now i want the video streaming. Is it even possible?
I would appreciate any suggestion.

Thanks!

PS: The programming language is java.

[rauckenthaler]

[vivotek]

Thanks for the response!

Unfortunately there is no information in PZ6114/6124's user's manual about a control port.
However i checked the user's manual from your camera PZ3127 and saw that the control port is 5001. I tried a connection to this port and doesn't work (a connection to the other ports doesn't work either).
Some questions to you: What do you mean by a connection id?
Is there a command to find out the control port on the camera?
I tried http://192.168.0.99/cgi-bin/admin/getparam.cgi?cport with no result.
Also i wanted to know if there is a method to see if the camera listens on these ports.
Here is some simple test code i worked with:
try {
URL url = new URL("http://192.168.0.99/");
HttpURLConnection httpConn=(HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

System.out.println("Response: "+httpConn.getResponseMessage()+","+httpConn.getHeaderField("Server"));
Socket socket = new Socket("192.168.0.99", 5001);
System.out.println("Coonec: " + socket.isConnected());
System.out.println("Coonec: " + socket.isBound());
System.out.println("Coonec: " + socket.getReceiveBufferSize());

} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
192.168.0.99 is the ip of the camera. And the socket connection with the following exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect

[rauckenthaler]

The best for you is to use ethereal to find out the communications

if you point your browser to webcamip/main.html you'll get a response which contains
document.write("<PARAM NAME=\"RemoteID\" VALUE=\"23709\">");

this is the Id of your connection
on 5001 you need to create a TCP connection and not HTTP connetion. on this connection you'll need to implement the protocol they are using with your RemoteID value. It's all a bit tricky but i got it kind of working in C++ if you like i'll send you the code

However i still struggle to extract the H263+ video stream i think they do not comply to the specs. so it seems almost impossible to do anything with it.

[vivotek]

Currently in the camera main web page appears an activex control with the following html code the following:

document.write("<OBJECT ID=\"VAtCtrl\" WIDTH=362 HEIGHT=358 name=\"VAtCtrl\"");
document.write("CLASSID=CLSID:210D0CBC-8B17-48D1-B294-1A338DD2EB3A");
document.write(" CODEBASE=\"/VatDec.cab#version=1,0,0,51\">");
document.write("<PARAM NAME=\"VSize\" VALUE=\"SIF\">");
document.write("<PARAM NAME=\"Language\" VALUE=\"en\">");
document.write("<PARAM NAME=\"Deblocking\" VALUE=\"true\">");
document.write("<PARAM NAME=\"DisplayTimeFormat\" VALUE=\"1\">");
document.write("<PARAM NAME=\"DigitalZoomEnableChk\" VALUE=\"true\">");
document.write("<PARAM NAME=\"DigitalZoomEdit\" VALUE=\"true\">");
document.write("<PARAM NAME=\"Url\" VALUE=\"/cgi-bin/control.cgi\">");
document.write("</OBJECT>");
}

As you can see there is no RemoteId. The web interface is using an ActiveX control called VitaminControl.
The line: Socket socket = new Socket("192.168.0.99", 5001); is trying to make a TCP connection, but I didn't implement a protocol so I would appreciate any hint, code on this matter. My email address: iuliana.dogaru@gmail.com.

Thank you!

[umedia]

You can view any IP camera with Windows Media Player
using IPCamSourceVideo DirectShow source filter.

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