Zonet 7630 Wireless (ZVC7630W)

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mattyo
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Zonet 7630 Wireless (ZVC7630W)

Post by mattyo »

Hi, I'm just getting started with ZoneMinder, and so far have it working okay with JPEG on a new IP camera. I'm posting here because this camera has not been mentioned in the forums or wiki, and I'm hoping to maybe get a little help and/or help others. :-)

The camera is the Zonet 7630 W (ZVC7630W) wireless IP camera. It supports JPEG, MJPEG, and MPEG4. Firmware is 1.0.0 build 278. The documentation is not very helpful, but wireshark and google have gotten me this far.

Note: I can't get this cam to do DHCP over wireless, so I have to access it with its default address of 192.168.0.30, so that's the address in my examples. User & pw are whatever you have set in the camera. The default admin info is admin:admin.

In ZoneMinder, JPEG images work via:

http://user:pw@192.168.0.30/cgi/jpg/image.cgi

That's all I can get working with ZM so far. The frame rate is around 1-3 FPS which is slower than what I'd like.

In the camera's web interface, the embedded Java applet can display MJPEG at a much higher frame rate, which looks pretty good. Wireshark reveals:

http://user:pw@192.168.0.30/cgi/mjpg/mjpeg.cgi

However, this stream is multipart/mixed, which neither ZM nor Mplayer seem to be able to handle. (Is this true?) The actual HTTP reply from the cam looks like:

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Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary=myboundary

--myboundary
Content-Length: 43452

[binary data ...]
As for MPEG4, I had to use the bundled Ultraview program, and it revealed:

http://user:pw@192.168.0.30/cgi/mpeg4/m ... ile=0&md=1

If I go that in Firefox, it also comes back as a multipart/mixed stream (FF opens a download dialog for each frame!).

Also, the docs mention:

rtsp://user:pw@192.168.0.30/mpeg4

Which quicktime buffers forever without playing, and Mplayer says:

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MPlayer SVN-r29800-4.4.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
Playing rtsp://user:pw@192.168.0.30/mpeg4.
Connecting to server 192.168.0.30[192.168.0.30]: 554...
rtsp_session: unsupported RTSP server. Server type is 'unknown'.
STREAM_LIVE555, URL: rtsp://user:pw@192.168.0.30/mpeg4
Stream not seekable!
 file format detected.
Initiated "video/MP4V-ES" RTP subsession on port 49784
demux_rtp: Failed to guess the video frame rate
VIDEO:  [mp4v]  0x0  0bpp  0.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
FPS not specified in the header or invalid, use the -fps option.
No stream found.

Exiting... (End of file)

So, that's where I'm at. Does anyone know how to deal with the multipart/mixed issue? Or the RTSP stream? Any other tips?

Thanks in advance, and sorry for the newbie post!

-Matt

[edit: clarification]
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kingofkya
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Post by kingofkya »

Not a newbie post basically what you have to do if its really the header is swap it using a php file simmer to but you may need to do modifications to it. Were here to help if you cant figure it out. :)

http://www.zoneminder.com/wiki/index.php/Conceptronic
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