Hikvision iVMS Mac OS X

Hikvision iVMS4200 software for Mac OS X systems. This was hosted on the Hikvision website. I downloaded a copy and I am posting a copy here for my archival purposes.

Download Link:  iVMS-4200.pkg

HIkvision NVR Embed RTSP Stream

Embedding Live Hikvision NVR RTSP Stream into custom Website

Here is how to embed the Hikvision RTSP stream into a web page.

Copy the following HTML code and save it in a .html file and you can view the Hikvision NVR streams using it. Change the IP, Username and Password to match your setup. Change the subtream by changing the ending of if the URL from 2 to 1 (such as 101 instead of 102).

HTML CODE:

<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>Hikvision NVR Live View</title>
<center>
</head>
<body border="0" bgcolor="black">
<h1 style="color:white;">Hikvision NVR Live View</h>
<table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<p style="color:white;" align="center">Camera 1 Substream</p>
</td>
<td>
<p style="color:white;" align="center">Camera 2 Substream</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<object ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="320" CLASSID="CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab">
<embed TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" SRC="rtsp://admin:12345@192.168.1.100/Streaming/Channels/102" NAME="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="320" autostart="1" showcontrols="0"></embed></object>
</td>
<td>
<object ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="320" CLASSID="CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab">
<embed TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" SRC="rtsp://admin:12345@192.168.1.100/Streaming/Channels/202" NAME="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="320" autostart="1" showcontrols="0"></embed></object>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p style="color:white;" align="center">Camera 3 Substream</p>
</td>
<td>
<p style="color:white;" align="center">Camera 4 Substream</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<object ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="320" CLASSID="CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab">
<embed TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" SRC="rtsp://admin:12345@192.168.1.100/Streaming/Channels/302" NAME="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="320" autostart="1" showcontrols="0"></embed></object>
</td>
<td>
<object ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="320" CLASSID="CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..." TYPE="application/x-oleobject" CODEBASE="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab">
<embed TYPE="application/x-mplayer2" SRC="rtsp://admin:12345@192.168.1.100/Streaming/Channels/402" NAME="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="320" autostart="1" showcontrols="0"></embed></object>
</td>
</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
</center>
</body></html>

Excuse the bad code and formatting, I am not a web developer. But it works!

It works on both Linux and Windows, I find it works best when you have VLC plugin installed.

Hikvision FTP Sites

List of Hikvision FTP Sites or HTTP Download Sites, to get firmware and documentation.

Hikvision China FTP Site Note: Hikvision FTP Site is no longer active, link is to Hikvision downloads page.

Hikvision EU FTP Site Note: Hikvision FTP Site is no longer active, link is to Hikvision downloads page.

Hikvision USA FTP Site

Corrupt Datastore.edb

Windows Server 2003 Fix Corrupt Datastore.edb
 
Error Received: wuauclt (2096) The database page read from the file "C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb" at offset 4882432 (0x00000000004a8000) for 4096 (0x00001000) bytes failed verification due to a page checksum mismatch.  The expected checksum was 2374805580 (0x8d8ca84c) and the actual checksum was 2375854156 (0x8d9ca84c).  The read operation will fail with error -1018 (0xfffffc06

Fix: 1) In command prompt, type: net stop WUAUSVC
         2) In command prompt, type: net stop BITS
         3) Rename C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution to C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution.old
         4) In command prompt, type: net start WUAUSVC
         5) In command prompt, type: net start BITS
         6) Reboot and Done!


This post may be outdated as it was for Windows Server 2003, I am placing it here to keep it for my records.

Windows 7 Pin to Start Menu (2)

So I recently ran into a problem when setting up my new laptop. When I pinned my favourite apps to the start menu Windows would append (2) to the end of the file name, trying to rename it prompts that the shortcut already exists.

Here is what I found, the shortcut is already there but hidden in a folder located here:

%appdata%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned

So either delete the hidden shortcuts in this folder and remake your pinned items in the start menu or make them non-hidden.

Hikvision Android Client

Hikvision iVMS-4500 V2.00.04 Build 20121217 

 

I have uploaded a copy of Hikvision iVMS-4500 Software in APK format for my archival purposes.

This was hosted on hikvision's Website, I grabbed a copy before they took it off for some reason.

iVMS-4500(Android)_V2.00.04_Build20121217.apk

Hikvision NTP Problem

I ran into a problem with some of my Hikvision IP Cameras and their NTP (Network Time Protocol) update time being off even though the time zone was correct. Now what was weird was it wasn’t on all cameras(Different FW, Different Region).

What I had to do was swap the DST start and end times. 

Example

Before Swapping:

After Swapping:

The start time was now the end time and the end time was now the start time. And it worked!