Streaming on Opera Mini or Streaming Media (HTC) not working

souverain · Post by **souverain** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:29 pm

I am using panasonic BL-c131a. I am able to stream using a full blown browser (IE and Mozilla), but when I use my mobile device (ie or opera mini), it does not stream or even refresh.

I have tried several things (all on latest 1.24 version):

(1) There is a post saying you may get mobile streaming using format=xhtml. Does not work

(2) Set my camera to do MPEG. No mobile streaming.

(3) Set my camera to do JPEG. No mobile streaming.

(4) Set my camera to do JPEG, and refresh every 3 seconds - which is really just a series of JPEGs. No mobile streaming.

(5) Set ZM to http refreshing. Still No mobile streaming.

(6) I also tried RTP over HTTP (but that fails to stream even on my regular browsers).

I have tried almost every other setting related to streaming/display I can think of in ZM and still no mobile streaming.

The question is:

(1) Why is this so hard? It is my camera type or camera settings or is it my zm settings?

(2) Why can't I use the Streaming Media application that comes with my HTC?

Any help is appreciated

Post by **zoneminder** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:49 pm

I think you are under a few misapprehensions.

1) The is no mobile streaming per se. If your phone cam stream the usual formats as per regular browsers then you may be in luck. However mobiles usually prefer 3GP or similar and support for that is not built in directly yet.

2) The format=xhtml is for versions prior to 1.24.0. For this use skin=mobile but that is just a 'lite' mobile interface and doesn't have streaming as such though you can download 3GP (or any of your defined formats) videos of events.

3) What formats does your HTC streaming app support? You may need to set some of the ffmpeg options in ZM if you want to match formats with that and use the primary web interface.

souverain · Post by **souverain** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:20 pm

Thanks for the info.

My Media Player supports 3gp, and I already have 3gp as one of the options listed for ffmpeg formats (ZM_FFMPEG_FORMATS). According to your email, this should just give me an option to download events, but does not allow me to use live streaming since that is not supported by ZM?

Thanks

zoneminder wrote:I think you are under a few misapprehensions.

1) The is no mobile streaming per se. If your phone cam stream the usual formats as per regular browsers then you may be in luck. However mobiles usually prefer 3GP or similar and support for that is not built in directly yet.

2) The format=xhtml is for versions prior to 1.24.0. For this use skin=mobile but that is just a 'lite' mobile interface and doesn't have streaming as such though you can download 3GP (or any of your defined formats) videos of events.

3) What formats does your HTC streaming app support? You may need to set some of the ffmpeg options in ZM if you want to match formats with that and use the primary web interface.

Post by **zoneminder** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:33 pm

Unfortunately 'live' streaming is different than just generating a stream. It requires setting up SDP usually and then firing packets over UDP or over a connectionless method over TCP. Just generating a 3GP file is much simpler.