Digging a stream out of a windows-client only box

coke · Post by **coke** » Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:36 pm

I've noticed people occasionally manage to find direct paths to image streams on boxes that normally require a windows client (.ocx file). I have one such box, a Speco Tech.

Any suggestions on where I might start? Should I be trying to sniff packets on the windows machine?

Theoretically since it's an .ocx I could write a VB client that could see it, then stream it to ZM, but that's far from ideal.

Post by **zoneminder** » Sun Feb 08, 2009 6:03 pm

Yes. I would use WireShark to sniff the connection and see what you can find in there.

coke · Post by **coke** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:00 pm

Thanks for the tip. Wireshark looks like fun in general. So far I've managed to pull out a string that's apparently streaming DIVX of all 16 cameras connected to it. VLC likes it, though rapidly switches between the 16 cameras.

I guess I'll argue with ffplay and see if I can get it to give me the frames I want?