Genetec Ingest Engine

The Genetec ingest engine ingests video from Genetec Security Center.

NOTE: To use this ingest engine your system must meet the following requirements:

  • You must run Media Server on Windows.
  • You must set the parameter GenetecSDKDirectory to the path of the Genetec Security Center 5.6 SDK (which you must obtain from Genetec).

To configure the Genetec ingest engine, you can set the following parameters:

Configuration Parameter Description
BasicPassword The password to use to retrieve video.
BasicUsername The user name to use to retrieve video.
RecorderHost The host name or IP address of the Genetec Security Center recording server.
RecorderPort The port of the Genetec Security Center recording server.
StartTimeout The maximum amount of time to wait to receive the first frame from the Genetec Security Center recording server.
StreamTimeout The maximum amount of time to wait for the next record from a stream.
Type The type of ingest engine to use. Set this parameter to GenetecIngest.

The Genetec ingest engine produces the following tracks, where taskName is the name of the ingest task:

  • taskName.Image_1 - an image track which contains the video frames. This track can be referred to using the alias Default_Image.
  • taskName.Proxy - the proxy track.