This article describes how to record a video from SAFR SCAN or SAFR Camera.  This may be requested by support for purposes or reproducing issues occurring in the field.


If requested, enable Recognition Details Overlay


Enable RTSP feed from SAFR Reader or SAFR Camera as follows: 

 

Then fill out the following dialog:

 

Leave Authentication as Digest.  For convenience in recording stream as described below, you may want ot keep the password to just letters and numbers.

 

The RTSP URL will be:

rtsp://DEVICE_IP_ADDRESS/preview   (with overlays)

rtsp://DEVICE_IP_ADDRESS/video   (without overlays)

 

Record the preview feed using a tool such as FFMPEG or add

Download FFMPEG command line from 

ffmpeg -i "rtsp://USER:PASSWORD@DEVICE_IP_ADDRESS/preview" -c copy -reset_timestamps 1 -metadata title=\"SAFRVIDEO\" -map 0:1 -f segment -strftime 1 -segment_time 180 -segment_format mp4 "safrvideo_%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S.mp4"

Where USER, PASSWORD and DEVICE_IP_ADDRESS should be replaced with your values from SAFR SCAN or Camera.