Dahua

IPC-HDB4300C

This camera works perfectly as long as you have Zoneminder set up with FFMPEG.

Stream 0 is 1920 x 1080 @ 25fps and stream 1 is 708 x 576 @ 25fps. Both streams are compressed using H264 MPEG-4 AVC. The FFMPEG decoder is the way to go.

The camera defaults to an IP address of 192.168.1.108 with a username/password of admin/admin. It has a built-in web browser that lets you set a number of functions. The camera comes with a manual on a mini-CD. The manual is marginally useful. It is best just to get on the web interface and play.

I found that it helpful to download the VLC player and put the following url into the File/Open Network dialog box:

rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.108

You will find information on the Internet saying you need something like the following in order for it to work:

rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.108:554/live

This does work, but it does not seem to be necessary. Going to the IP address directly gets you to Stream 0 - the HD stream. You can see the properties of the stream using VLC by going to Window/Media Information/Codec Details. If you want to specifically point to the HD stream, use:

rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.108:

IPC-HDB3200C

• Source Type: Remote
• Remote Protocol: RTSP
• Remote Method: RTP/RTSP
• Remote Host Name: user:password@ip.address
• Remote Host Port: 554
• Remote Host Path: /cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0&tcp
• Target Colorspace: 24 bit colour
• Capture Width (pixels): 1920
• Capture Height (pixels): 1080
• Preserve Aspect Ratio: Unselected
• Orientation: Normal
• Deinterlacing: Disabled

Note that this camera can occasionally go into an 'indeterminate' state if power is interrupted or browned-out. When in this state, it will respond to pings and telnet, but will not stream an image. There is an app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nz.co.trillium.dahuareboot that will reboot it out of this state.