Hi!
I see you've done a great job on hacking your cam. I've bought a DS-2CD2012-I recently, and I'm pretty happy with it. Except that I can't find any convenient way to play recorded videos under Linux. At first I thought I could play them using RTSP , but It doesn't seem to work. And I've got no reply from Hikvision support regarding this either. I wonder if this can be fixed, but right now I don't know where to start.
After this had failed, I decided to extract videos out of NFS storage. I've written a script that does this, and I see you've done the same. What I wanted to ask is this: could you share what you know about the format of their index file? I can share what I've found out too, but it's really a minimum number of fields required to extract, and you most likely already know what I know. I think that maybe I could improve my solution if I knew the format better. Later I plan on building a simple web interface to browse the extracted videos.
Keep up the good work!