Xvision X100V MegaPixel Indoor/Outdoor IP Camera

[Mad Professor]

Good Day All.

I am looking for help and advice with regards to getting my Xvision X100V MegaPixel Indoor/Outdoor IP Camera working with zoneminder.

Here is there link for the Camera: Xvision X100V (The Tough Dome).
X100V Datasheet.
X100 Series Quick Guide.
X100 Series Main User Manual.
X100 Series RTSP.

This will be my 1st IP camera with zoneminder, upto now I have been using analog cameras.

Can you please advice where I should start.

Best Regards.

[Mad Professor]

I still am not having any luck getting this camera up and working with zoneminder.

If I try any of the following in VLC media player I can view the stream from the camera

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rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/roi0
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/media/media.amp
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/media/media.amp?videocodec=jpeg&resolution=640x480&audio=0
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/mjpg/video.mjpg
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/mjpg/video.mjpg?videocodec=jpeg&resolution=640x480&audio=0

The camera RTSP video stream supports h264, mpeg4, jpeg.

But I just can not seem to get it working within zoneminder.

[Mad Professor]

I have got the X100V working with zoneminder by using the following:

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http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/mjpg/video.mjpg
or
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/mjpg/1/video.mjpg

But using the above I am limited to 5FPS @ 640x480.

[Mad Professor]

I think I have just been and shot my self in the foot.

I have just updated the firmware on my X100V to: v5.0.2.7232, and now the http stream I found no longer works.

So I really need to get RTSP working.

Can someplease please confirm that I am setting this right in zoneminder.

Source
Remote Protocol: RTSP
Remote Method: RTP/RTSP/HTTP
Remote Host Name: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Remote Host Port: 554
Remote Host Path: /media/media.amp?videocodec=jpeg&resolution=640x480&audio=0
Remote Image Colours: 24 bit colour
Capture Width (pixels): 640
Capture Height (pixels): 480
Preserve Aspect Ratio: Unticked
Orientation: Normal

[Mad Professor]

Reading the X100V RTSP manual over and over, show that any of the below should give the RTSP feed.
And all the below works with VLC media player, but I can still not get it to work within zoneminder.

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New RTSP URL format

H264
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/media/media.amp?videocodec=h264&resolution=640x480&audio=0

MPEG4
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/media/media.amp?videocodec=mpeg4&resolution=640x480&audio=0

MJPEG
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/media/media.amp?videocodec=jpeg&resolution=640x480&audio=0

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Old RTSP URL format

H264
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/h264/media.amp?resolution=640x480
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/h264/1/media.amp?resolution=640x480

MPEG4
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/mpeg4/media.amp
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/mpeg4/media.amp?resolution=640x480
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/mpeg4/1/media.amp
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/mpeg4/1/media.amp?resolution=640x480

MJPEG
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/mjpg/video.mjpg?resolution=640x480
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/mjpg/1/video.mjpg?resolution=640x480

3GPP
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/mpeg4/media.3gp

Has anyone here got any ideas?

Thanks for your time.

[Mad Professor]

Reading some other posts where pepole have had problems getting RTSP to work, they have tried ffmpeg and got it working.

I have tried changing from RTSP to ffmpeg, but I have just hit another problem.

I enter the full url into the Source Path:

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rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/media/media.amp?videocodec=jpeg&resolution=640x480&audio=0

I then click save, but then the end of the url gets cut off and I end up with this

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rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/media/media.amp?videocodec=jpeg&resolut

No matter what I try atm, I just seem to be hitting my head on a brick wall.

[Mad Professor]

I found out why Source Path path was getting cut down.
I had to edit the zm database and change the, monitors, source path, from varchar(64) to varchar(128), It will now save the full path.

I am now able to use ffmpeg as the source type with the full path address.

I am now even able to get a video feed from:

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rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/media/media.amp?videocodec=h264&resolution=640x480&audio=0
and
rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/media/media.amp?videocodec=mpeg4&resolution=640x480&audio=0

But not.

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rtsp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:554/media/media.amp?videocodec=jpeg&resolution=640x480&audio=0

The video feed is very poor, when comparing the same video stream with VLC media player, and also eating a lot of resources.

Can anyone please let me know their thoughts.

Best Regards.

[Mad Professor]

I have just found out that this camera is also known as a: A-MTK AM9060M.

[cyberkryten]

I have several IP cameras already working fine (Panasonic C160 and YCams) and also bought one of these X100V cameras. In initial tests (not using ZM) it was fine. My ZM system has been running for a couple of years (1.24.2, recently upgraded to 1.25) so everything else works fine.

The X100V camera itself works fine and FTP uploads any detected events as H264 movies.

However, I have issues with Zoneminder's processing of the video stream

I'm doing it through ffmpeg as I couldn't get RTSP to work directly (like others) and am using a source of

rtsp://x.x.x.x/mpeg4/media.amp?resolution=vga

And I have tried setting the resolution to 640x480 (same as my other cams) but it still doesn't help.

It works for a while but the processing drops out often - I'm getting about 50 instances per DAY of processing anomolies where the picture distorts (see the attached pics for the event ZM records).

At the same time as these are occuring, the camera itself doesn't generate and event and if I cam viewing the live stream from a browser, it also stays perfect.

[Mad Professor]

I have still not been able to get my X100V working via RTSP or ffmpeg.

RTPS I just get no video feed, and like you if I try and use ffmpeg it works then fails.
Just like in my post here: Corrupted video stream using ffmpeg.

The only way I have so far been able to get zoneminder working with my X100V, is to downgrade the firmware to v5.0.2.4128 and use http streaming

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http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/mjpg/video.mjpg
or
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/mjpg/1/video.mjpg

But using the above I am limited to 5FPS @ 640x480.

v5.0.2.7232 of the firmware has had the http streaming removed, or at least the above paths.

It does seem that I am not the only one having no end of problems getting a IP camera working with RTSP.

Best Regards.

[oldStrogg]

Same problem here.

ffmpeg work at 320*240, but at 640*480 picture unstable. (kernel.shmall = 1073741824 kernel.shmmax = 1073741824)

I try SANYO VCC-HD5600p and a few others manufacturers... No luck

Can anyone help with RTSP?