Responsive Video Viewing

Phillip
Phillip
edited October 2018 in SecuritySpy
This is mainly for mobile viewing moving to and from landscape view.

Just wondering if you had any thoughts on this.

Thanks,

Phillip

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  • Ben
    Ben
    Hi Phillip, this does happen when you are using our SecuritySpy iOS app - it will automatically adjust playback to portrait or landscape view. Is this what you are referring to, or are you using a different method to view video?
  • Phillip
    Phillip
    ...2 years later..... (Spongebob cut scene)

    So I was wondering if there would be a responsive viewing method outside of the iOS app environment? Basically via the web streams (Chrome, Edge, Safari).
  • ckurowic
    ckurowic
    That functionality has been a feature for quite some time. You can enable the web server and view streams that way, or use the AppleTV app.
  • Phillip
    Phillip
    I understand they are viewable via the websever, but is the video responsive? Meaning will it grow and shrink as the browser window expends and contracts.

    Best,
  • Ben
    Ben
    When viewing via the web interface, SecuritySpy detects the window size in order to decide how large to display various elements such as the live video and movie playback, however this is done just once at the beginning of streaming, and is not adjusted when you resize the browser window.
  • mphamilton
    mphamilton
    I'm also interested in embedding the HTTPS video stream from a SecuritySpy web server on one of my websites, which are designed to be responsive based upon the device and screen resolution. At this time, the only way I seem to be able to adjust the video size is on the camera itself (I use primarily Amcrest IP cameras). I am guessing there is probably not a way to do this in javascript, but I'll throw the question out there for anyone's ideas?

    Thanks,
    Mike
  • Ben
    Ben
    Hi @mphamilton - if you take a look at the various requests for live video streams on our SecuritySpy Web Server Specification document, you will see that each one takes "width" and "height" parameters, allowing you to specify the size of the video stream that will be received. This size is independent from the size being received from the camera.

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