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Thanks Jack. I have tried the URL in IE, Chrome, Safari, and Netscape; on Windows, MacOS and Linux; same response each time, http error 500. It gets past authorization fine before the error. Something off in the camera, perhaps it will get fixed in future firmware. I'm not using PHP, but thanks for ...

I enter the snapshot URL into the address bar in Chrome, also have it in bookmarks and on a web page. I have these for several different non-Amcrest cameras. The Video Stream URL is: http://user:password@hostname:httpport/cgi-bin/mjpg/video.cgi?channel=0&subtype=1 Works fine. I am trying to have...

I have written a gosh-ugly perl script to collect all the jpg files from the depth of the hierarchy and place them in a single directory with timed filenames. Gets rid of the brackets and @ signs too. Someday I will learn what they mean but this is works for my purposes.

Dana

Thanks for the replies, much appreciated. Regarding Port - no changes there. In fact, the URL to get a video stream via HTTP works fairly consistently - both that one and the snapshot one use use the http port. I have also tried from both sides of the firewall, doesn't work locally or off-net. Regar...

Hello, I've setup FTP on a IP8M camera and it works - I get the error when I try "TEST" on the FTP page that has been mentioned on the forum but the files are being uploaded fine. The camera uses a rather complex directory structure, here's an example: dir/AMC0513F7002E85xxx/2019-10-08/001...

Question - what are the fixes/new features of this beta firmware? I understand this is not the java one yet, which we all look forward to.

Dana

Hello, I have an AMCREST IP8M Camera running the current firmware (2.622.00AC000 from April 2019). I found the URL to get a single snapshot on the forum and it worked: http://user:pwd@ip:port/cgi-bin/snapshot.cgi However, after I used it a few times it stopped working - I receive an HTTP error 500 w...