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.
