Ok, Thanks.
I already sent support@amcrest.com an email. I'm waiting to hear back from them.

An image with infra-red and another with my phone camera showing how dark it was.

Glad you like it! I just wish it worked as desired in vMix.

Still haven't heard back from Amcrest support on my ticket.

Yeah, I still haven't received a response. No worries though, it's not urgent.

As Martin doesn't actually have one, he may not know the answer.

Per your query of Amcrest by John, I expect with the answer given, that they have actually tried it and succeeded. ;)

If that is truly the case, then they should be able to direct me properly.

http://forums.vmix.com/d...ts&m=11229#post11229

I knew I'd seen this!
Not sure why it's causing me such an issue using AAC from the Amcrest device though. vMix simply doesn't like the Amcrest AAC audio output.

Also noticing a large lag in the video stream. I can hear my wife speaking in the Kitchen, and the video shows her lip sync about 5-8 seconds out.

That said, for my events, I may hang it upside down on a tripod to give it some height, and flip the display 180 to give me better low side coverage, and put it on wired Ethernet for best throughput and stability. There will most likely be plenty of other wireless interference in the rooms I use anyway.

Hi Jeff,

Im glad you got it working in vMix, well done.

Regarding the camera lag via wireless, I think you would always have a problem using wifi I have a gopro and when using it with my ipad there is lag so I use an HDMI cable in to vMix.

For you to get no lag from your camera you would have to use a wireless system like the Teradek systems they have transmitters and receivers but they are very expensive. If you have never here'd of this company take a look at this link below.

http://teradek.com/

Hi Jeff,

Do you need to have the Amcrest software open I'm wondering if that could be causing some kind of conflict with vMix.

Yes that would be helpful if you did an in depth video.

The only problem I can see with power over Ethernet cable is the power draw from your PC just external USB devices do unless you have a high powered power supply in your PC to cope with it.

What motherboard and how much RAM do you have in your PC?

Edit: and what windows system are you using?

By no means is this going to be considered comprehensive. ;)

Using the light in my front yard, I captured the same stream in a browser, then desktop capture into vMix (faster), and then created a direct input of that same stream in vMix (slower).

The light shows pretty well how much lag there is between the 2 inputs, even though they are basically the same stream.

I have 3 Amcrest cameras 2 of which are the PTZ cameras (being discussed) and one a fixed version. I have no trouble setting these up under vMix using RTSP. The audio is fine. I am listening to the birds chirping as I am writing this. They will skip frames now and then but I think that is my network (as mentioned below). For less than $100 per PTZ cameras I think I am happy - and I can use the Android app to control the PTZ. I bought these for security but they have also helped me understand and trouble shoot RTSP issues.

I mention this because I just finished setting up vMix in a Church with 4 FLIR PTZ IP cameras using RTSP. These cameras would skip frames, lock up, pixelate etc. After trying everything I could to get them working with the current configuration I decided they needed to be set up on their own LAN. One of the camera runs was over 300 feet and the others were not less than 150 feet and who knows what electrical interference there was. I placed a POE switch in the mix and ran a single CAT6 to the router in the control room (which also has an internet feed for streaming). Once I put the new network in they starting working great. It turns out that to get them to work even better I needed to turn off the Network Video Recorder during the vMix session. Every once in a while these cameras will skip a frame or two - I have to remember that they are really intended as security cameras (30 fps) and not streaming PTZ cameras like the PTZoptics brand which are about $1000 each more. By the way if these security cameras had not already been installed I would have proposed a PTZoptics solution and ran RG6 coax cable to a 4 port Magewell SDI capture card.

Hope this helps.