On 2/26/23 20:31, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a perplexing question I am seeking answers to. Note that this DOES > concern BOTH Windows and Linux, I'll start off with Windows. > > So as I mentioned in my talk on security cams the Reolink cam I passed around > outputs video over the network. There are 2 streams it makes available, a > primary stream and a substream. > > The primary stream is the full resolution of the camera and it outputs in > H.265. The substream is a much more limited resolution of the camera and it > outputs in H.264 > > ....
I'm not going to weigh in on any F/OSS "religious war", and I could care less about what MS Windows has or doesn't, but there are workarounds since only the h.265 binaries are patent encumbered, IIRC. Interestingly, the same patent encumbrances cover h.264, but here, Mozilla partnered with Cisco: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/open-h264-plugin-firefox I suppose if Cisco switches to h.265 for video conferencing, this will be all me a moot point. https://www.videolan.org/developers/x265.html can be linked to vlc and ffmpeg, and anything linked to them. https://www.libde265.org/blog/2014/02/22/gstreamer-4k-h265-hevc-plugin/ Anything that uses gstreamer can play h.265 with this gst plugin and libde265 library. Whether a plugin/extension/HTML5/js/nodejs can be massaged so as to display in a web browser is another exercise. H.265 is a topic on the Zoneminder forums, so they are aware: https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?t=31787 https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?p=129677&hilit=H.265#p129677 Unfortunately, I missed your Zoneminder talk. I have it running here with 2 cellphones [1] and just added a Reolink E1 Pro [2]. Once I figured out that I needed their windows app (WINE FTW!) to activate rtsp and ONVIF I was able to find the h264 streams. why were these disabled by default and no web console! -Ed ------------------------- [1] https://www.linuxgalaxy.org/kingbeowulf/repurpose-cellphones-as-home-security-cameras/ [2] If you happen to know how to get the Zoneminder camera motion control working on E1 pro, ping me offlist!
