Speco IP cameras and mjpg/streaming/scripting

PHSJason

We have an older Speco DVR/cam system. Hybrid DVR. We needed to add a couple of cameras. Chose IP since the DVR supports it. Now, we are trying to get an mjpg stream to feed the touch-panels in the house and having no joy. Speco sent me a scripting guide, but my brain is not taking the journey today. Anyone have any insight on getting mjpg streams from a speco mjpg camera, or from the DVR?

Model SIPSD37 camera
DVR8TH

AMX panels are 5200is, cv10, cv7 etc.

DHawthorne

If you have a mix of IP and video CCTV cams, I would think the better option is to throw an Axis video server on the output, and then you can get all your pictures on the panel. Use the 485 port on the DVR to switch cameras, and control them if they have any controls. The Speco DVRs I have worked with won't give you an IP stream directly, they need a browser with an ActiveX control; I don't know if that is also true of their cameras. I'm sure you could cobble together something for them, but if it only gives you the new cams, that somewhat limits the usefulness of it.

PHSJason

Thanks Dave.

I have an Axis multi-channel encoder for the existing cameras. Works great. I even have two free channels. The problem is that the three new cameras are IP only and I cannot go straight from the cameras into the encoder. I have three IP only cameras to get on the panels and need three new streams. One quad stream would sort-of work, but not the desired result.

What about software based conversion to mjpeg? I could access an mpeg4 stream from the IP cameras and convert it to mjpeg. There is a dedicated pc in the rack on-site that could be used for this purpose.

We are planning on adding NVR software to expand the DVR capabilities. Maybe there is one that will give us a dedicated output per camera?

DHawthorne

I was thinking an Axis on the output of your DVR, but I agree that wouldn't really work with your setup. The thing is, I'm pretty certain that Speco IP cameras are client-pull devices, and I'm not sure you can do that on a touch panel. Even a browser requires and Active-X control generally (unless these are very different from what I have used, I'm not terribly familiar with your model). Maybe someone at AMX knows a trick or two about it ...

PHSJason

Update

Thanks to someone on another forum, we got it working. Now we are trying to find the rhyme/reason regarding changing the resolution/fps on the fly the same way that we do with Axis.

Thread:
http://www.integrationpros.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20651

Seems to work with(spaces added to show link):
http:// 192.168.80.199 /cgi-bin/cmd/system?GET_STREAM

Now I am trying to find the strings to allow modification the resolution...

kholm

Speco Camera or DVR?

With the string you showed did that allow you to connect ot the camera or the DVR?

PHSJason

kholm wrote: »

With the string you showed did that allow you to connect ot the camera or the DVR?

Camera Directly