How to start software development for your webcam & IP camera in C#

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How to start software development for yourwebcam
IP camera in C
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS!

• Welcome to this video that will explain you
  briefly how to get started on ONVIF webcam and IP
  camera development in C. After watching this
  tutorial, you will find out all the necessary
  tasks you need to do to get ready for creating
  your own surveillance software. Its gonna be
  helpful from the beginning to the end, if youre
  new to this field of coding.

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Building a camera software

• Youll see that it doesnt require any special
  programming skills if you want to build your own
  camera software, such as
• a camera viewer, a network video recorder, or
  a video analyzer.
• The best way for creating any webcam or IP camera
  application is using a toolkit that supports
  ONVIF. Why is the ONVIF specification so
  important?
• Because it defines a common protocol for the
  exchange of data between network video devices
  including video streaming, video analytics,
  motion detection, PTZ motion control, automatic
  device discovery, etc.

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About the ONVIF technology

• ONVIF is an IP-based security standard. ONVIF is
  an open industry forum for the development of a
  global standard for the interface of IP-based
  physical security products. ONVIF is established
  to act on behalf of the members to facilitate the
  development of a global open standard for the
  interface of IP-based physical security products.
  
• On this basis, ONVIF standardizes communication
  between IP-based physical security enables
  interoperability between IP-based physical
  security products regardless of manufacturer and
  it is open to all companies and organizations.
• A software development kit, that supports ONVIF,
  provides instant ONVIF ability to your
  development environment.

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Instant ONVIF ability

• An ONVIF-based programming toolkit, such as Ozeki
  Camera SDK, provides a first-rate technology for
  any webcam and IP camera development. To use this
  SDK a basic programming knowledge is enough,
  since it provides the base for the ONVIF solution
  you are working on.
• Instead of wasting time for long development
  process on your own, you can take advantage on
  this software development kit. Integrating it to
  your own program will provide instant ONVIF
  ability.

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Prerequisites

• Lets see what you need to build a camera
  software in C

• A Windows PC with broadband Internet connection
• A USB webcam attached to your PC or an IP camera
  connected to your network
• An IDE, such as Microsoft Visual Studio,
  installed on your PC(Please note that for the
  Visual Studio at least .NET Framework 3.5 or its
  any newer version is needed.)
• An ONVIF-based programming toolkit, such as Ozeki
  Camera SDK, installed on your PC

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New Visual Studio project

• After you have obtained and installed all of
  them, start programming by launching your Visual
  Studio. First of all create a new project

• Click on File then New project
• Select the Visual C Console Application or the
  Visual C Windows Forms Application option(It
  depends on the application you want to create.)
• Specify a name for your project
• Click on OK

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Add ONVIF components

• Now you need to add the necessary ONVIF
  programming components to the references in order
  to be able to define the default behaviour of the
  preferred camera software in the simplest way.

• Right-click on References
• Select the Add references option
• Browse the VoIPSDK.dll file that can be found
  where the SDK has been installed to
• Select the .dll and click OK

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Examples and source codes

• Thereby your system is ready to develop any
  camera solution!

www.camera-sdk.com
To get free example projects with step-by-step
tutorials and free source codes, it is highly
recommended to check the Online manual of Ozeki
Camera SDK.
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• To sum it up Ozeki Camera SDK  provides
  background support for your surveillance software
  projects by offering prewritten ONVIF components
  to your development environment.

Download the trial version of Ozeki Camera SDK
from this page http//www.camera-sdk.com/p_13-do
wnload-onvif-standard-ozeki-camera-sdk.html
! For more information please visit www.camera-sd
k.com or send an e-mail to info_at_camera-sdk.com T
hank you for your attention!
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