Some minor issues that perhaps others have noticed.
For one of my H264 cameras, for whatever reason, it takes up to 3 seconds to produce a jpg after an HTTP request. It seems that altUI polling is faster – that’s OK, but it results in a blank image showing up on my browser when nothing is returned from the camera. Would it be possible to detect this condition, and only update the image if a valid jpg is retrieved?
For all of my H264 cameras, I seem to be constrained to 1x1 aspect ratio. No matter what I do when editing the widget, I cannot get it to the native 16x9 format.
Some minor issues that perhaps others have noticed.
For one of my H264 cameras, for whatever reason, it takes up to 3 seconds to produce a jpg after an HTTP request. It seems that altUI polling is faster – that’s OK, but it results in a blank image showing up on my browser when nothing is returned from the camera. Would it be possible to detect this condition, and only update the image if a valid jpg is retrieved?
For all of my H264 cameras, I seem to be constrained to 1x1 aspect ratio. No matter what I do when editing the widget, I cannot get it to the native 16x9 format.
I’m attaching an example for reference.
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I have a few question for you:
what is the altui ID of that camera ?
can you go into Misc/ DEBUG then chose One Device(s state and type in that ALTUI ID in the box ( 0-nnn ) then share the result?
What is the value of your option “Show Video Thumbnail in Local mode”?
are you in local or remote mode ?
You are correct – If I remember correctly, nothing worked with the DirectStreamingURL. The Amcrest does NOT provide an http stream (rtsp only for video, http only for a single jpg framegrab). I tried using the http framegrab url in the DirectStreamingURL (/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi?channel=1), but that completely broke things. It was a pain to remove the DirectStreamingURL – I’ll put it back if you think it will help things.
[quote=“tedp, post:5, topic:195282”]You are correct – If I remember correctly, nothing worked with the DirectStreamingURL. The Amcrest does NOT provide an http stream (rtsp only for video, http only for a single jpg framegrab). I tried using the http framegrab url in the DirectStreamingURL (/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi?channel=1), but that completely broke things. It was a pain to remove the DirectStreamingURL – I’ll put it back if you think it will help things.
Thanks
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it is only useful if there is a direct camera url which can be used to get a video stream. so sounds like you can only have the image snapshot mode. as far as avoiding the blank when the request fails, I am not sure, will look a bit around that but not sure there is an easy way
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