Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Stream Hikvision NVR VLC

Here is how to stream the video feed from a Hikvsion NVR using VLC.

Create a text file and enter the following line replacing the username/pass/ip with yours.

Main stream:

rtsp://admin:12345@192.168.2.100/Streaming/Channels/101

or

rtsp://admin:12345@192.168.2.100/PSIA/Streaming/channels/101

Substream:

 
rtsp://admin:12345@192.168.2.100/Streaming/Channels/102

or

rtsp://admin:12345@192.168.2.100/PSIA/Streaming/channels/102

Note: In this example 192.168.2.100 is the IP address on the LAN port of the Hikvison NVR. the first 1 ine 101 is the camera number and the second 1 is the main stream, can use 2 for substream.

Save the text file as Camera1.asf or Camera1.m4v(asf or m4v is the extension of the file so your media player will recognize it and open it) now double-click the Camera1.asf or Camera1.m4v file or drag and drop it into VLC and it should start streaming immediately.


See this post on how to stream different cameras/channel and mainstream/substream. Hikvison NVR Streaming URLs



1 comment:

  1. Hi,
    Thanks for this. It manages to open the stream in VLC, but VLC asks for the logon and Password although I have addred it to the .asf
    Is there a way to tel VLC to read this information directly from the .asf file?
    Hans

    ReplyDelete

Thanks for your input.

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