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Integration With Navigate For Accessing Video Via RTSP Or Similar Stream

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Matt Barber
•Jan 31, 2017

I'm looking for anyone's experience working with "NaviGate" to integrate a live video feed with their HTML5 based web interface.    Basically, they need to be able to render H.264 video in a browser without using 3rd party plugins.   Most of the video in the systems we use requires an Activex or similar decoder, which they do not appear to want to deal with.   

The video feed would be provided via RTSP, which doesn't seem to play well with HTML5 that they use.

We are considering using an app to convert the video to a flavor that will work for their web interface as well.

 

Any experience you can share would be appreciated.

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John Honovich
•Jan 31, 2017
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Matt, I am not familiar with NaviGate and since its spelled just like 'navigate', figuring it out from Google is hard. Can you share a link to their site so we can help?

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Matt Barber
•Feb 01, 2017
In reply to John Honovich

Certainly.  NaviGate seem to be tied into several of the School Districts we have worked with in Ohio.   Safety plans/documents online.   The idea from our side is that 1st responders could use a web interface to pull up video onsite @ a school.

It appears that typical IP video RTSP is not easy to render using standard non-plugin based HTML5.

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Undisclosed #1
•Feb 01, 2017
In reply to Matt Barber

Matt, What has been your experience with Safety Plans and First Responders? We found that all throughout the county, the information is never updated and accurate, which makes it eventually unusable for them. 

I would be curious to know how this NaviGate has worked out

 

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Matt Barber
•Feb 01, 2017
In reply to Undisclosed #1

Your experience sounds familiar.   I think the onus of ownership falls back to the school Administration.   They need to keep info up to date.    I'm not certain about ease of access for 1st responders.  They would need access to cloud stored info/data.    

The concept is neat, and should be easy to implement and access the info.   I don't actually have too much exposure to the product directly.    I just need to be able to do some level of integration with their web based product.

 

 

 

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Undisclosed Manufacturer #2
•Feb 01, 2017

Are you looking for a system that takes the source RTSP feed and can be viewed in a web browser without using plugins

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Matt Barber
•Feb 01, 2017
In reply to Undisclosed Manufacturer #2

Yes.  I have a few software applications to investigate still.  

But basically, our NVR software can stream via RTSP.  You can call up an RTSP stream direct from the single IP address of the recorder, vs. Trying to pull from each camera IP address.

Something that can pull the RTSP from the recorder, convert it, and then be able to deliver into HTML5 for NaviGate without ActiveX, VLC, Quicktime etc.   

I'm uncertain right now what flavor would work best, and I'm waiting on NaviGate to communicate back to me.. but These may work:

  • WebRTC
  • MPEG-DAS
  • RTMP
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UM
Undisclosed Manufacturer #2
•Feb 01, 2017
In reply to Matt Barber

This can be achieved but there will be latency? what latency delays are acceptable?

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Matt Barber
•Feb 01, 2017
In reply to Undisclosed Manufacturer #2

I figured there would be some latency.   What kind of delay has been your experience?  I assume the more data, the higher the chance for latency.  

If it's beyond 20 seconds or so for 2MP IP video, we could feasibly go with a lower resolution image to manage a bit if that's the case.

 

 

 

UM
Undisclosed Manufacturer #2
•Feb 01, 2017
In reply to Matt Barber

anywhere from 10-30 seconds. how many cameras are you trying to integrate and is it live feeds?

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Matt Barber
•Feb 01, 2017
In reply to Undisclosed Manufacturer #2

Our intent right now is simply to provide single camera feeds when they click on an icon/map location in their browser.   NaviGate apparently does 360 photographs and lays them out for viewing.. customer then clicks on a link of sorts to pull up video.    

Ideally we could provide muliple streams if needed, but a per camera stream of one or two at a time is what we are minimally hoping to provide.

 

 

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