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<blockquote data-quote="Disore" data-source="post: 802123" data-attributes="member: 89076">Hi digitalm.It feels good that you are taking an interest in this plugin. However, your assumption that I am overestimating the quantity of work to get other cameras to work in my plugin frankly only shows your lack of knowledge on how MediaPortal works. This is not a disrespect or anything, only a response to what to me looks like the famous last words &quot;How hard can it be?&quot;.You are correct that video from a Axis camera can be viewer in your favorite browser using the URLs stated, but the video in MediaPortal is not loaded using a browser but instead using DirectShow. So the question you should ask is instead: &quot;Can I figure out how DirectShow can setup a filter-chain to be able to view video from a network camera in MediaPortal?&quot;. In order to get Axis cameras to work I have to register a HTTP Multipart source filter to be able to show M-JPEG, and a RTP source filter to show MPEG-4 and H.264. These filters are rendering video from Axis cameras using DirectShow.Another aspect to think of is that the user of the plugin shouldn't have to enter credentials everytime he or she wishes to view video, the camera credentials should be entered when adding the camera in the plugin configuration, and only then. That means that the plugin has to have a way to specify the credentials to the source filter, which in turn uses those credentials when accessing the network camera.Please let me know if you still think I am overestimating how difficult it will be to support more cameras. I would gladly support more cameras. After all, the more users, the merrier me <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Disore, post: 802123, member: 89076"] Hi digitalm. It feels good that you are taking an interest in this plugin. However, your assumption that I am overestimating the quantity of work to get other cameras to work in my plugin frankly only shows your lack of knowledge on how MediaPortal works. This is not a disrespect or anything, only a response to what to me looks like the famous last words "How hard can it be?". You are correct that video from a Axis camera can be viewer in your favorite browser using the URLs stated, but the video in MediaPortal is not loaded using a browser but instead using DirectShow. So the question you should ask is instead: "Can I figure out how DirectShow can setup a filter-chain to be able to view video from a network camera in MediaPortal?". In order to get Axis cameras to work I have to register a HTTP Multipart source filter to be able to show M-JPEG, and a RTP source filter to show MPEG-4 and H.264. These filters are rendering video from Axis cameras using DirectShow. Another aspect to think of is that the user of the plugin shouldn't have to enter credentials everytime he or she wishes to view video, the camera credentials should be entered when adding the camera in the plugin configuration, and only then. That means that the plugin has to have a way to specify the credentials to the source filter, which in turn uses those credentials when accessing the network camera. Please let me know if you still think I am overestimating how difficult it will be to support more cameras. I would gladly support more cameras. After all, the more users, the merrier me :D [/QUOTE]

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