Is there a manual on how to use the multimedia toolkit to retrieve data from an external source and then send the data to XProtect?

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Please bear with me as I’m still a newbie to XProtect. I’m looking for a manual on how I can setup my project from scratch so that I may create a tool which can do what it states above. I am using XProtect Essential+ and I have also downloaded the MIPSDK.

Thank you.

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To send in video to XProtect, you need to have the video flowing through a driver.

Either send JPEGs via the VideoProvider classes, use Universal Driver for connecting to your video source via RTSP protocol, or use the ONVIF driver connecting to your video source.

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Hi Anders,

Thanks for your reply. I just have some follow-up questions.

  1. Does this work for JPEGs which already exist? (e.g. the JPEG is already stored in a specified location meaning it is not sent to the Universal Driver as it is still being generated by the camera)?
  2. Also, which VideoProvider classes are you referring to?

Thank you so much for your help.

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We have a sample called VideoProviderUI. It creates a JPEG and send to the recorder. You should be able to modify it to pick up files and send instead. It work as live images, e.g. get current timestamps.