How to know if the camera has video or not?

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Using the sdk it’s possible to know if the camera has video or not ?

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If you can playback there is video. I am guessing that you might want more of an overview of which periods there is video, correct?

Maybe this will fit? -

https://developer.milestonesys.com/s/article/sequences-retrieval-with-the-MIP-SDK

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The problem is, if we ask for video of a camera that has no video the request keeps retrying and locks the video requests of other cameras, or makes them take too long. Normally a video request takes about 2~3 seconds if we request for video from a camera that has no video and then request video from a camera that has it takes more than 30 seconds to get the video from the second camera.

Is there any status we can check before asking for video?

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I am not sure how to reply, I think I need to understand more about what you are doing..

Are you asking for live video or playback?

Can you reproduce the behavior with the TcpVideoViewer sample?

Please describe more about the setup and what your program is doing..

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Hey,

We are trying to ask for live video. I think this is an internal dll problem, since when we request video from a camera that has no video the dll stops answering.

I’ll try to reproduce the problem with the tcpvideoview sample.

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If you are doing a component integration please try with Video Viewer sample, if you are doing a protocol integration please try with TcpVideoViewer sample.