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Hi All,
When I plug in a AMCREST POE Camera on my LAN, something like: IP8M-T2599EW-AI-V3 , there is a notion of several MJPG / AAC streams.

I assume that the Web browser access goes direct to these streams on some URL like: ip:port/stream_id or something.

Is there documentation on line on how to go directly to these streams on your LAN to be able to get the video/audio feed to do your own frame over frame or chunk over audio chunk analysis? Some sort of API/SDK documentation that you can point me in the right direction? Would be nice if it was in Python3.

Thanks in Advance!

From this on the board a few minutes ago. Not from me, but it sure does work! Just tested it

Here is what I did in Ubuntu in the mean time.

Download VLC if you don't have it already.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html

Open it up and go to "Media" in the title bar of the application.

From there go to "Open Network Stream"

In the address field type
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rtsp://[username]:[password]@[deviceIP]:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0
Replace [username], [password] and [deviceIP] with your credentials and press "Play".

This should show you a live stream from the cam in the correct format.

To move the cam you have to go to your browser and type in the devices IP and log in. The controls still work in the default browser application, just the video is broke.