Showing Live Video in Management Client

MIP
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Hi,

In an application I am developing, I need to show live video in the Management Client as part of a configuration process. I have seen live video in the Management Client under Cameras and Recording Servers but have not been able to determine how this is done. I have attempted using both the JPEGLiveSource and the BitmapLiveSource classes; however, each fails with the following messages respectively, Connection Lost to Server, and Method Not Supported for This.

Can you tell me how to display live video in the Management Client and, if possible, provide a source code example?

Thanks

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An update to the last message display for the BitmapLiveSource, “Method Not Supported for This Environment” as indicated in the exception returned in the first bitmaps returned to teh live event handler.

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I found a sample application that is supposed to show video in the admin client (VideoPreviews) but it fails on loading in admin client with “Could not load type ‘VideoOS.Platform.Client.BitmapSource’ from assembly ‘VideoOS.Platform, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=bc60fba4a7969f89’.”

Does anyone know the cause of this error?

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Showing video in the Management Client (MC) is blocked. With the exception of the AdminImageViewerControl. The design consideration is to make sure the MC is used for configuration work and other clients for the video viewing, maybe to preserve resources on the MC. However this is going to change.

Many partners have however expressed the wish for video to be used with configuration work and from the next version (XProtect Corporate and Expert 2015) the MC will support this.

Unfortunately it is so that the VideoPreviews sample has already implemented the methods that will be supported in the next version. This is the reason for the sample not working.

I mentioned AdminImageViewerControl, this is what was used in the VideoPreviews sample before it got updated to use future methods, so the older sample (from an olde MIP SDK) will work. I have made a download copy here: http://download.milestonesys.com/MIPSDK/Samples/VideoPreview40.zip

XProtect Corporate 2015 is planned to be released by the end of the year.

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Thank you