Required to continous capturing Images from stream (DCS 950)

[joshijimit]

Hello All,

I have successfully establish connection to IP camera (DCS 950) and I can see the Live streaming in my C# .NET Window Application through CSViewer.

Now My requirment is to capture Images continously from a live stream.
I found one function called snapVideo in CSViewer but it opens a popup and ask us to save captured image.

So Is it any other way out to capture images continously?

Regards,
Jimit

[40th Floor]

That is one weird camera. From what I can remember, the 950 (another bottom-wrung/over-priced dlink by CellVision) is mpeg4-only for streaming, but you can pull jpegs out of it, one by one. I think it requires IE6 (and only IE6) to work from a browser.
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[joshijimit]

Thanks for the reply.

Yes you are right, I can pull jpeg by sending the request via HttpWebRequest but the cam takes too much time to send back the response.
And I am going to use this cam for recognize the person's face so i need a real time image with out any delay that I cant achieve through it.

Any other way like I can capture image from a live stream which is displayed in CSViewer???

Thanks for your support.

Regards,
Jimit

[paysonsmama]

I think my need is similar. I want to record steaming video from my ip camera on a schedule so that the software does not need to be running on my computer. The closest thing I can figure from Googleing is an Hvaas site, off site video storage, but I may be wrong. If you figure something out let us know!

[buellwinkle]

I have the same camera, a Cellvision CAS-630W (DLiNK rebranded it as the 950). It takes very clear sharp images, best of the cheap cameras I own including Axis, but not very stable, I end up losing streaming after an hour or so. I've been using BlueIris and it works fine capturing streaming from it. I have it setup as a DLINK 950.
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[40th Floor]

Dlink must have done something to mess its version then, because you can't get much worse that the 950. Regarding its up time, when I first got it, it streamed for about 10 seconds. I had to put 1.05 FW on it (whatever the last dlink version was). When it quits working now, I have to power it off/on to get it to work again, and then may have to repeat that. If you have the dlink version, all I can suggest is to toss it (ebay!). Here's a pic of a dlink 950, with all the light I can get in here



Compared to Gadspot, or one of those early ball cameras I suppose you might think it's good.
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