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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.

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

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?