CN110769192A

CN110769192A - Monitoring recording method and device

Info

Publication number: CN110769192A
Application number: CN201810836609.0A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李阔; 张丽敏; 王军; 张立伟
Original assignee: Visionvera Information Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Visionvera Information Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-07-26
Filing date: 2018-07-26
Publication date: 2020-02-07
Anticipated expiration: 2038-07-26
Also published as: CN110769192B

Abstract

The invention provides a monitoring recording method and a monitoring recording device, which are applied to a video network. The method comprises the following steps: the IE plug-in receives the information of the target monitoring equipment after being started and generates a playing request aiming at the target monitoring equipment; the IE plug-in sends the playing request to a monitoring scheduling server through a first internet protocol, and sends the playing request to a monitoring sharing platform through a video networking protocol via the monitoring scheduling server; the IE plug-in receives a monitoring video stream of the target monitoring device returned by the monitoring sharing platform through a second internet protocol according to the playing request, and the monitoring video stream is acquired from the monitoring access server by the monitoring sharing platform through the video networking protocol; and the IE plug-in records the monitoring video stream to obtain a monitoring video file, and locally stores the monitoring video file. The method and the system can directly check the monitoring video at the monitoring scheduling client locally, so that the video network terminal does not need to be bound, the process of checking the monitoring video is simpler and more convenient, and the flexibility is higher.

Description

Monitoring recording method and device

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of video networking technologies, and in particular, to a monitoring and recording method and a monitoring and recording apparatus.

Background

The video networking is an important milestone for network development, is a real-time network, can realize high-definition video real-time transmission, and pushes a plurality of internet applications to high-definition video, and high-definition faces each other. The video networking adopts a real-time high-definition video exchange technology, can integrate required services such as dozens of services of video, voice, pictures, characters, communication, data and the like on a system platform on a network platform, such as high-definition video conference, video monitoring, intelligent monitoring analysis, emergency command, digital broadcast television, delayed television, network teaching, live broadcast, VOD on demand, television mail, Personal Video Recorder (PVR), intranet (self-office) channels, intelligent video broadcast control, information distribution and the like, and realizes high-definition quality video broadcast through a television or a computer.

In the video monitoring service of the video network, a monitoring scheduling platform needs to be bound with a video network terminal, and when a user wants to check a monitoring video, the monitoring scheduling platform sends a request to the video network terminal and plays the monitoring video through the video network terminal, so that the user can check the monitoring video on the video network terminal.

However, the process of the mode of viewing the monitoring video by the binding video network terminal is complex, and the video network terminal generally has a large volume and poor mobility, so that the flexibility of viewing the monitoring video by the user is limited to a great extent.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of the above, embodiments of the present invention are proposed to provide a monitoring and recording method and a corresponding monitoring and recording apparatus that overcome or at least partially solve the above problems.

In order to solve the above problems, an embodiment of the present invention discloses a monitoring and recording method, which is applied to a video network, wherein the video network comprises a monitoring scheduling client, a monitoring scheduling server, a monitoring sharing platform and a monitoring access server, the monitoring scheduling client is provided with an IE plugin, and the method comprises the following steps:

after the IE plug-in is started, receiving information of target monitoring equipment and generating a playing request aiming at the target monitoring equipment;

the IE plug-in sends the playing request to the monitoring scheduling server through a first internet protocol, and sends the playing request to the monitoring sharing platform through the monitoring scheduling server through a video internet protocol;

the IE plug-in receives a monitoring video stream of the target monitoring device, which is returned by the monitoring sharing platform through a second Internet protocol according to the playing request; the monitoring video stream is acquired from the monitoring access server by the monitoring sharing platform through a video networking protocol;

and the IE plug-in records the monitoring video stream to obtain a monitoring video file, and locally stores the monitoring video file.

Preferably, the monitoring scheduling client further includes an IE browser, and before the step of receiving information of a target monitoring device and generating a play request for the target monitoring device after the IE plugin is started, the method further includes: and after receiving a plug-in starting instruction, the IE browser calls a preset plug-in playing video interface to start the IE plug-in.

Preferably, the step of recording the monitoring video stream by the IE plugin to obtain a monitoring video includes: the IE plug-in analyzes the monitoring video stream into video data with a set format; and the IE plug-in generates the monitoring video file by adopting the video data.

Preferably, the monitoring scheduling client further includes an IE browser, and the step of recording the monitoring video stream by the IE plug-in to obtain the monitoring video file includes: and after receiving the recording instruction sent by the IE browser, the IE plugin records the monitoring video stream to obtain the monitoring video file.

Preferably, the first internet protocol is a session initiation protocol SIP, and the second internet protocol is a real-time transport protocol RTP.

On the other hand, the embodiment of the invention also discloses a monitoring and recording device, which is applied to a video network, wherein the video network comprises a monitoring and scheduling client, a monitoring and scheduling server, a monitoring and sharing platform and a monitoring access server, the monitoring and scheduling client is provided with an IE plugin, and the IE plugin comprises:

the generating module is used for receiving the information of the target monitoring equipment after being started and generating a playing request aiming at the target monitoring equipment;

the sending module is used for sending the playing request to the monitoring scheduling server through a first internet protocol and sending the playing request to the monitoring sharing platform through the monitoring scheduling server through a video internet protocol;

a receiving module, configured to receive a monitoring video stream of the target monitoring device, which is returned by the monitoring sharing platform through a second internet protocol for the play request; the monitoring video stream is acquired from the monitoring access server by the monitoring sharing platform through a video networking protocol;

and the recording module is used for recording the monitoring video stream to obtain a monitoring video file and locally storing the monitoring video file.

Preferably, the monitoring and scheduling client further installs an IE browser, where the IE browser includes: and the calling module is used for calling a preset plug-in playing video interface to start the IE plug-in after receiving a plug-in starting instruction.

Preferably, the recording module includes: the video analyzing unit is used for analyzing the monitoring video stream into video data with a set format; and the file generating unit is used for generating the monitoring video file by adopting the video data.

Preferably, the monitoring scheduling client further includes an IE browser, and the recording module is specifically configured to record the monitoring video stream to obtain the monitoring video file after receiving a recording instruction sent by the IE browser.

In the embodiment of the invention, an IE plugin is installed in a monitoring and scheduling client, and the IE plugin receives information of target monitoring equipment after being started and generates a playing request aiming at the target monitoring equipment; then sending the playing request to a monitoring scheduling server through a first internet protocol, and sending the playing request to a monitoring sharing platform through a video networking protocol via the monitoring scheduling server; the monitoring sharing platform can acquire a monitoring video stream of the target monitoring equipment from the monitoring access server through a video networking protocol aiming at the playing request, and returns the monitoring video stream to the IE plug-in unit through a second Internet protocol; the IE plug-in can record the monitoring video stream to obtain a monitoring video file, and the monitoring video file is stored locally. Therefore, the embodiment of the invention realizes that the monitoring video file is locally stored through the IE plug-in, so that a user can directly check the monitoring video at the monitoring scheduling client locally, a video network terminal does not need to be bound, the process of checking the monitoring video is simpler and more convenient, and the flexibility is higher.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic networking diagram of a video network of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a hardware architecture of a node server according to the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an access switch of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an ethernet protocol conversion gateway according to the present invention;

fig. 5 is a flowchart illustrating steps of a method for monitoring recording according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a flowchart illustrating steps of a method for monitoring recording according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a monitoring recording method according to a third embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a block diagram of a monitoring and recording apparatus according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention comprehensible, embodiments accompanied with figures are described in further detail below.

To better understand the embodiments of the present invention, the following description refers to the internet of view:

some of the technologies applied in the video networking are as follows:

network Technology (Network Technology)

Network technology innovation in video networking has improved over traditional Ethernet (Ethernet) to face the potentially enormous video traffic on the network. Unlike pure network Packet Switching (Packet Switching) or network circuit Switching (circuit Switching), the Packet Switching is adopted by the technology of the video networking to meet the Streaming requirement. The video networking technology has the advantages of flexibility, simplicity and low price of packet switching, and simultaneously has the quality and safety guarantee of circuit switching, thereby realizing the seamless connection of the whole network switching type virtual circuit and the data format.

Switching Technology (Switching Technology)

The video network adopts two advantages of asynchronism and packet switching of the Ethernet, eliminates the defects of the Ethernet on the premise of full compatibility, has end-to-end seamless connection of the whole network, is directly communicated with a user terminal, and directly bears an IP data packet. The user data does not require any format conversion across the entire network. The video networking is a higher-level form of the Ethernet, is a real-time exchange platform, can realize the real-time transmission of the whole-network large-scale high-definition video which cannot be realized by the existing Internet, and pushes a plurality of network video applications to high-definition and unification.

Server Technology (Server Technology)

The server technology on the video networking and unified video platform is different from the traditional server, the streaming media transmission of the video networking and unified video platform is established on the basis of connection orientation, the data processing capacity of the video networking and unified video platform is independent of flow and communication time, and a single network layer can contain signaling and data transmission. For voice and video services, the complexity of video networking and unified video platform streaming media processing is much simpler than that of data processing, and the efficiency is greatly improved by more than one hundred times compared with that of a traditional server.

Storage Technology (Storage Technology)

The super-high speed storage technology of the unified video platform adopts the most advanced real-time operating system in order to adapt to the media content with super-large capacity and super-large flow, the program information in the server instruction is mapped to the specific hard disk space, the media content is not passed through the server any more, and is directly sent to the user terminal instantly, and the general waiting time of the user is less than 0.2 second. The optimized sector distribution greatly reduces the mechanical motion of the magnetic head track seeking of the hard disk, the resource consumption only accounts for 20% of that of the IP internet of the same grade, but concurrent flow which is 3 times larger than that of the traditional hard disk array is generated, and the comprehensive efficiency is improved by more than 10 times.

Network Security Technology (Network Security Technology)

The structural design of the video network completely eliminates the network security problem troubling the internet structurally by the modes of independent service permission control each time, complete isolation of equipment and user data and the like, generally does not need antivirus programs and firewalls, avoids the attack of hackers and viruses, and provides a structural carefree security network for users.

Service Innovation Technology (Service Innovation Technology)

The unified video platform integrates services and transmission, and is not only automatically connected once whether a single user, a private network user or a network aggregate. The user terminal, the set-top box or the PC are directly connected to the unified video platform to obtain various multimedia video services in various forms. The unified video platform adopts a menu type configuration table mode to replace the traditional complex application programming, can realize complex application by using very few codes, and realizes infinite new service innovation.

Networking of the video network is as follows:

the video network is a centralized control network structure, and the network can be a tree network, a star network, a ring network and the like, but on the basis of the centralized control node, the whole network is controlled by the centralized control node in the network.

As shown in fig. 1, the video network is divided into an access network and a metropolitan network.

The devices of the access network part can be mainly classified into 3 types: node server, access switch, terminal (including various set-top boxes, coding boards, memories, etc.). The node server is connected to an access switch, which may be connected to a plurality of terminals and may be connected to an ethernet network.

The node server is a node which plays a centralized control function in the access network and can control the access switch and the terminal. The node server can be directly connected with the access switch or directly connected with the terminal.

Similarly, devices of the metropolitan network portion may also be classified into 3 types: a metropolitan area server, a node switch and a node server. The metro server is connected to a node switch, which may be connected to a plurality of node servers.

The node server is a node server of the access network part, namely the node server belongs to both the access network part and the metropolitan area network part.

The metropolitan area server is a node which plays a centralized control function in the metropolitan area network and can control a node switch and a node server. The metropolitan area server can be directly connected with the node switch or directly connected with the node server.

Therefore, the whole video network is a network structure with layered centralized control, and the network controlled by the node server and the metropolitan area server can be in various structures such as tree, star and ring.

The access network part can form a unified video platform (the part in the dotted circle), and a plurality of unified video platforms can form a video network; each unified video platform may be interconnected via metropolitan area and wide area video networking.

Video networking device classification

1.1 devices in the video network of the embodiment of the present invention can be mainly classified into 3 types: servers, switches (including ethernet gateways), terminals (including various set-top boxes, code boards, memories, etc.). The video network as a whole can be divided into a metropolitan area network (or national network, global network, etc.) and an access network.

1.2 wherein the devices of the access network part can be mainly classified into 3 types: node servers, access switches (including ethernet gateways), terminals (including various set-top boxes, code boards, memories, etc.).

The specific hardware structure of each access network device is as follows:

a node server:

as shown in fig. 2, the system mainly includes a network interface module 201, a switching engine module 202, a CPU module 203, and a disk array module 204;

the network interface module 201, the CPU module 203, and the disk array module 204 all enter the switching engine module 202; the switching engine module 202 performs an operation of looking up the address table 205 on the incoming packet, thereby obtaining the direction information of the packet; and stores the packet in a queue of the corresponding packet buffer 206 based on the packet's steering information; if the queue of the packet buffer 206 is nearly full, it is discarded; the switching engine module 202 polls all packet buffer queues for forwarding if the following conditions are met: 1) the port send buffer is not full; 2) the queue packet counter is greater than zero. The disk array module 204 mainly implements control over the hard disk, including initialization, read-write, and other operations on the hard disk; the CPU module 203 is mainly responsible for protocol processing with an access switch and a terminal (not shown in the figure), configuring an address table 205 (including a downlink protocol packet address table, an uplink protocol packet address table, and a data packet address table), and configuring the disk array module 204.

The access switch:

as shown in fig. 3, the network interface module mainly includes a network interface module (a downlink network interface module 301 and an uplink network interface module 302), a switching engine module 303 and a CPU module 304;

wherein, the packet (uplink data) coming from the downlink network interface module 301 enters the packet detection module 305; the packet detection module 305 detects whether the Destination Address (DA), the Source Address (SA), the packet type, and the packet length of the packet meet the requirements, and if so, allocates a corresponding stream identifier (stream-id) and enters the switching engine module 303, otherwise, discards the stream identifier; the packet (downstream data) coming from the upstream network interface module 302 enters the switching engine module 303; the data packet coming from the CPU module 204 enters the switching engine module 303; the switching engine module 303 performs an operation of looking up the address table 306 on the incoming packet, thereby obtaining the direction information of the packet; if the packet entering the switching engine module 303 is from the downstream network interface to the upstream network interface, the packet is stored in the queue of the corresponding packet buffer 307 in association with the stream-id; if the queue of the packet buffer 307 is nearly full, it is discarded; if the packet entering the switching engine module 303 is not from the downlink network interface to the uplink network interface, the data packet is stored in the queue of the corresponding packet buffer 307 according to the guiding information of the packet; if the queue of the packet buffer 307 is nearly full, it is discarded.

The switching engine module 303 polls all packet buffer queues, which in this embodiment of the present invention is divided into two cases:

if the queue is from the downlink network interface to the uplink network interface, the following conditions are met for forwarding: 1) the port send buffer is not full; 2) the queued packet counter is greater than zero; 3) obtaining a token generated by a code rate control module;

if the queue is not from the downlink network interface to the uplink network interface, the following conditions are met for forwarding: 1) the port send buffer is not full; 2) the queue packet counter is greater than zero.

The rate control module 208 is configured by the CPU module 204, and generates tokens for packet buffer queues from all downstream network interfaces to upstream network interfaces at programmable intervals to control the rate of upstream forwarding.

The CPU module 304 is mainly responsible for protocol processing with the node server, configuration of the address table 306, and configuration of the code rate control module 308.

Ethernet protocol conversion gateway：

As shown in fig. 4, the apparatus mainly includes a network interface module (a downlink network interface module 401 and an uplink network interface module 402), a switching engine module 403, a CPU module 404, a packet detection module 405, a rate control module 408, an address table 406, a packet buffer 407, a MAC adding module 409, and a MAC deleting module 410.

Wherein, the data packet coming from the downlink network interface module 401 enters the packet detection module 405; the packet detection module 405 detects whether the ethernet MAC DA, the ethernet MAC SA, the ethernet length or frame type, the video network destination address DA, the video network source address SA, the video network packet type, and the packet length of the packet meet the requirements, and if so, allocates a corresponding stream identifier (stream-id); then, the MAC deletion module 410 subtracts MAC DA, MAC SA, length or frame type (2byte) and enters the corresponding receiving buffer, otherwise, discards it;

the downlink network interface module 401 detects the sending buffer of the port, and if there is a packet, acquires the ethernet MAC DA of the corresponding terminal according to the video networking destination address DA of the packet, adds the ethernet MAC DA of the terminal, the MACSA of the ethernet coordination gateway, and the ethernet length or frame type, and sends the packet.

The other modules in the ethernet protocol gateway function similarly to the access switch.

A terminal:

the system mainly comprises a network interface module, a service processing module and a CPU module; for example, the set-top box mainly comprises a network interface module, a video and audio coding and decoding engine module and a CPU module; the coding board mainly comprises a network interface module, a video and audio coding engine module and a CPU module; the memory mainly comprises a network interface module, a CPU module and a disk array module.

1.3 devices of the metropolitan area network part can be mainly classified into 2 types: node server, node exchanger, metropolitan area server. The node switch mainly comprises a network interface module, a switching engine module and a CPU module; the metropolitan area server mainly comprises a network interface module, a switching engine module and a CPU module.

2. Video networking packet definition

2.1 Access network packet definition

The data packet of the access network mainly comprises the following parts: destination Address (DA), Source Address (SA), reserved bytes, payload (pdu), CRC.

As shown in the following table, the data packet of the access network mainly includes the following parts:

DA

SA

Reserved

Payload

CRC

wherein:

the Destination Address (DA) is composed of 8 bytes (byte), the first byte represents the type of the data packet (such as various protocol packets, multicast data packets, unicast data packets, etc.), there are 256 possibilities at most, the second byte to the sixth byte are metropolitan area network addresses, and the seventh byte and the eighth byte are access network addresses;

the Source Address (SA) is also composed of 8 bytes (byte), defined as the same as the Destination Address (DA);

the reserved byte consists of 2 bytes;

the payload part has different lengths according to different types of data packets, and is 64 bytes if the data packet is a variety of protocol packets, and is 32+1024 or 1056 bytes if the data packet is a unicast data packet, of course, the length is not limited to the above 2 types;

the CRC consists of 4 bytes and is calculated in accordance with the standard ethernet CRC algorithm.

2.2 metropolitan area network packet definition

The topology of a metropolitan area network is a graph and there may be 2, or even more than 2, connections between two devices, i.e., there may be more than 2 connections between a node switch and a node server, a node switch and a node switch, and a node switch and a node server. However, the metro network address of the metro network device is unique, and in order to accurately describe the connection relationship between the metro network devices, parameters are introduced in the embodiment of the present invention: a label to uniquely describe a metropolitan area network device.

In this specification, the definition of the Label is similar to that of the Label of MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switch), and assuming that there are two connections between the device a and the device B, there are 2 labels for the packet from the device a to the device B, and 2 labels for the packet from the device B to the device a. The label is classified into an incoming label and an outgoing label, and assuming that the label (incoming label) of the packet entering the device a is 0x0000, the label (outgoing label) of the packet leaving the device a may become 0x 0001. The network access process of the metro network is a network access process under centralized control, that is, address allocation and label allocation of the metro network are both dominated by the metro server, and the node switch and the node server are both passively executed, which is different from label allocation of MPLS, and label allocation of MPLS is a result of mutual negotiation between the switch and the server.

As shown in the following table, the data packet of the metro network mainly includes the following parts:

DA

SA

Reserved

label (R)

Payload

CRC

Namely Destination Address (DA), Source Address (SA), Reserved byte (Reserved), tag, payload (pdu), CRC. The format of the tag may be defined by reference to the following: the tag is 32 bits with the upper 16 bits reserved and only the lower 16 bits used, and its position is between the reserved bytes and payload of the packet.

Based on the characteristics of the video network, the monitoring recording scheme provided by the embodiment of the invention follows the protocol of the video network, records the monitoring video stream through the IE plug-in, and stores the monitoring video file in the local, so that a user can view the monitoring video locally.

The monitoring and recording scheme of the embodiment of the invention can be applied to the video network. The video network of the embodiment of the invention can comprise a video network monitoring and dispatching platform, a monitoring and sharing platform, a monitoring access server and monitoring equipment, and the video network monitoring and dispatching platform can comprise a monitoring and dispatching client and a monitoring and dispatching server. The monitoring and dispatching client side and the monitoring and dispatching server can interact based on an internet protocol, the monitoring and dispatching server and the monitoring and sharing platform can interact based on the internet protocol, the monitoring and sharing platform and the monitoring and accessing server can interact based on the internet protocol, the monitoring and accessing server and the monitoring equipment can interact based on the internet protocol, and the monitoring and dispatching client side can interact based on the internet protocol.

Example one

Referring to fig. 5, a flowchart illustrating steps of a method for monitoring recording according to a first embodiment of the present invention is shown. The monitoring recording method of the embodiment of the invention can comprise the following steps:

step 501, after the IE plugin is started, receiving information of the target monitoring device and generating a play request for the target monitoring device.

In the embodiment of the invention, the IE browser and the IE plug-in can be installed in the monitoring and scheduling client of the video networking monitoring and scheduling platform in advance. The IE plug-in is a plug-in used in an IE browser and can realize local playing of monitoring videos at a monitoring scheduling client. The monitoring and scheduling client may be a Web end or a mobile end, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present invention.

The user can perform relevant operations in the front page of the IE browser so as to trigger the IE browser to start the IE plugin. The user can also execute relevant operations in the front-end page of the IE browser so as to trigger the IE browser to send the information of the target monitoring device to the IE plugin. After receiving the information of the target monitoring device, the IE plugin may generate a play request for the target monitoring device according to the information of the target monitoring device. The play request may include information of the target monitoring device, such as an identifier of the target monitoring device.

Step 502, the IE plug-in sends the play request to the monitoring scheduling server through the first internet protocol, and sends the play request to the monitoring sharing platform through the monitoring scheduling server through the video networking protocol.

In the specific implementation, the monitoring and scheduling server can serve as an Mserver, is a background service of a video networking monitoring and scheduling platform, and can be mainly used for processes of resource access, synchronization, flow regulation and the like of monitoring equipment.

The IE plug-in and the monitoring scheduling server can interact through a first internet protocol, and the monitoring scheduling server and the monitoring sharing platform can interact through a video networking protocol. After the IE plug-in generates the playing request, the playing request can be sent to the monitoring scheduling server through the first internet protocol, and the monitoring scheduling server sends the playing request to the monitoring sharing platform through the video networking protocol.

In step 503, the IE plug-in receives the monitoring video stream of the target monitoring device returned by the monitoring sharing platform through the second internet protocol for the play request.

In a specific implementation, the monitoring sharing platform may be in the form of a monitoring sharing server. The monitoring sharing platform can realize the access of the resources of the monitoring equipment accessed by the monitoring access server through the video networking protocol and the push-out through the Internet protocol. The monitoring access server is an entrance for accessing the monitoring equipment into the video network, and can be accessed into various types of monitoring equipment, so that the resources of the monitoring equipment are accessed through an internet protocol and are released through the video network protocol.

The monitoring sharing platform and the monitoring access server can interact through a video networking protocol, and the monitoring sharing platform and the IE plug-in can interact through an Internet protocol. And after receiving the playing request, the monitoring sharing platform acquires the monitoring video stream of the target monitoring equipment from the monitoring access server through the video networking protocol according to the playing request, and returns the acquired monitoring video stream to the IE plug-in unit through the second Internet protocol. The target monitoring device can be a network camera or the like.

And step 504, recording the monitoring video stream by the IE plug-in to obtain a monitoring video file, and storing the monitoring video file locally.

The IE plug-in receives the monitoring video stream returned by the monitoring sharing platform, can record the monitoring video stream to obtain a monitoring video file, and locally stores the monitoring video file at the monitoring client. The user can view the monitoring video locally at the monitoring client.

In the embodiment of the invention, the monitoring video file is locally stored through the IE plug-in, so that a user can directly check the monitoring video at the monitoring scheduling client locally, a video network terminal does not need to be bound, the process of checking the monitoring video is simpler and more convenient, and the flexibility is higher.

Example two

Referring to fig. 6, a flowchart illustrating steps of a monitoring recording method according to a second embodiment of the present invention is shown. The method can be applied to video networking.

The monitoring recording method of the embodiment of the invention can comprise the following steps:

step 601, after receiving the plug-in starting instruction, the IE browser calls a preset plug-in playing video interface to start the IE plug-in.

An IE browser and an IE plugin can be installed in the monitoring and scheduling client, when the IE plugin is installed, a user can input configuration information in an operation page provided by the monitoring and scheduling client, the configuration information can include information such as an IP address (such as an IP address of an Mserver), an ID (identity), a port and a video storage path of a monitoring and scheduling server, and the configuration information is stored in a monitoring and scheduling database of a video networking monitoring and scheduling platform.

In a preferred embodiment, the monitoring scheduling client may provide a resource list page, and the resource list page may record relevant information of the monitoring device, such as an identifier, a name, a working state, and an identifier of a monitoring access server accessed by the monitoring device. A play button may also be provided in the resource list page for the monitoring device. The user can trigger the plug-in starting instruction by executing relevant operations on the monitoring scheduling client. For example, a user may open a resource list page with an IE browser at the monitoring and scheduling client, and a plug-in start instruction may be triggered by the act of opening the resource list page with the IE browser. For another example, after the resource list page is opened by the IE browser, the user may click a play button, and the action of clicking the play button may trigger the plug-in start instruction.

After receiving the plug-in starting instruction, the IE browser can read preset configuration information from the monitoring scheduling database and call a preset plug-in playing video interface to start the IE plug-in according to the configuration information.

Step 602, after the IE plugin is started, receiving information of the target monitoring device and generating a play request for the target monitoring device.

And after opening the resource list page by using the IE browser, the user clicks a play button and selects target monitoring equipment to be played. For example, the user may select a target monitoring device from the monitoring device related information displayed on the resource list page. As another example, an input module (e.g., input box) may be provided in the resource list page, where the user may enter information for the target monitoring device.

The IE browser can acquire the information of the target monitoring device selected by the user and send the information to the IE plugin. And the IE plug-in receives the information of the target monitoring equipment and generates a playing request aiming at the target monitoring equipment. In a specific implementation, the IE plug-in may generate a play request based on an internet protocol and including information of the target monitoring device.

And 603, the IE plug-in sends the playing request to the monitoring scheduling server through the first Internet protocol, and sends the playing request to the monitoring sharing platform through the monitoring scheduling server through the video networking protocol.

The IE plug-in and the monitoring scheduling server can realize bidirectional interaction through a first internet protocol. In this embodiment of the present invention, the first Internet Protocol may be a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), which is a multimedia communication Protocol established by an IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), and is a text-based application layer control Protocol for creating, modifying, and releasing a Session of one or more participants. Certainly, bidirectional interaction between the IE plugin and the monitoring scheduling server may also be realized through other internet protocols, such as HTTP (Hyper Text transfer Protocol), and the like.

Therefore, the play request generated by the IE plugin may be a play request based on the first internet protocol, and the IE plugin sends the play request based on the first internet protocol to the monitoring scheduling server through the first internet protocol according to the configuration information. The monitoring scheduling server and the monitoring sharing platform are interacted through a video networking protocol, so that the monitoring scheduling server can convert the playing request based on the first internet protocol into the playing request based on the video networking protocol after receiving the playing request based on the first internet protocol, and send the playing request based on the video networking protocol obtained through conversion to the monitoring sharing platform through the video networking protocol.

And step 604, the IE plug-in receives the monitoring video stream of the target monitoring device returned by the monitoring sharing platform through the second Internet protocol according to the playing request.

And after receiving the playing request based on the video networking protocol, the monitoring sharing platform acquires the monitoring video stream of the target monitoring equipment from the monitoring access server through the video networking protocol. The method specifically comprises the following steps: the monitoring sharing platform sends a playing request based on the video networking protocol to a monitoring access server through the video networking protocol; the monitoring access server reads information (such as identification of the target monitoring equipment) of the target monitoring equipment from the playing request, converts the playing request based on the video networking protocol into the playing request based on the internet protocol, and sends the playing request based on the video networking protocol to the target monitoring equipment corresponding to the information through the internet protocol; after receiving the playing request, the target monitoring equipment returns the monitoring video stream based on the Internet protocol to the monitoring access server through the Internet protocol; the monitoring access server converts the monitoring video stream based on the Internet protocol into a monitoring video stream based on the video networking protocol, and sends the monitoring video stream based on the video networking protocol to the monitoring sharing platform. The internet protocol for interaction between the monitoring access server and the monitoring device may be h.323 protocol or SIP protocol.

The monitoring sharing platform and the IE plug-in can interact through a second internet protocol. In this embodiment of the present invention, the second internet Protocol may be an RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol), where the RTP is a network Transport Protocol, and the RTP Protocol specifies a standard packet format for transmitting audio and video over the internet. Therefore, after acquiring the surveillance video stream based on the video networking protocol, the surveillance sharing platform converts the surveillance video stream into a surveillance video stream based on an internet protocol (such as a second internet protocol), and returns the surveillance video stream based on the second internet protocol to the IE plugin through the second internet protocol.

Step 605, the IE plug-in records the surveillance video stream to obtain a surveillance video file, and stores the surveillance video file locally.

After receiving the surveillance video stream, the IE plug-in may decode and play the surveillance video stream for viewing by the user. The process of decoding and playing may specifically include: and the IE plug-in analyzes the monitoring video stream into video data with a set format and plays the video data.

The IE plug-in can also record the surveillance video stream to obtain a surveillance video file in the process of playing the surveillance video stream collected by the target surveillance device. For example, the IE plug-in may automatically record after receiving the surveillance video stream. For another example, the IE plug-in may also record after receiving the monitoring video stream and receiving the recording instruction.

In a preferred embodiment, a recording button may be displayed in the IE browser, a user may trigger a recording instruction by clicking the recording button, and the IE plug-in may record the surveillance video stream to obtain the surveillance video file after receiving the recording instruction sent by the IE browser.

Preferably, the step of recording the monitoring video stream by the IE plug-in to obtain the monitoring video record may include: the IE plug-in analyzes the monitoring video stream into video data with a set format; and the IE plug-in generates the monitoring video file by adopting the video data.

For the above setting format, those skilled in the art may select any suitable format according to practical experience, such as, for example, mp4, rmvb, wma, and the like, and the embodiment of the present invention is not limited thereto.

In a preferred embodiment, a recording stop button may be further displayed in the IE browser, a user may trigger a recording stop instruction by clicking the recording stop button, and the IE plugin may stop recording the monitoring video stream after receiving the recording stop instruction sent by the IE browser.

After the IE plug-in obtains the monitoring video file, the monitoring video file can be locally stored at the monitoring scheduling client. For example, a video storage path in the configuration information may be obtained, and a monitoring video file may be stored in a folder under the path, and so on.

The embodiment of the invention solves the problems that monitoring needs to be played and the video is checked on a video network terminal, the monitoring and recording functions can be realized locally by using an IE browser and an IE plug-in, the video file is stored locally, and a user can check the video at any time.

EXAMPLE III

Fig. 7 is a flowchart illustrating a monitoring recording method according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

(1) and filling a current-level configuration page on the monitoring scheduling client by the user, namely filling configuration information in the local configuration page, wherein the configuration information comprises information such as an IP address, an ID (identity), a port and a video storage path of the Mserver.

(2) And the monitoring and scheduling client stores the configuration information to a monitoring and scheduling database.

(3) And the user triggers a plug-in starting instruction on the IE browser, and the IE browser acquires the configuration information and calls the plug-in to play the video interface to start the IE plug-in.

(4) And the user selects the target monitoring equipment to be played, and the IE browser sends the information of the target monitoring equipment to the IE plug-in.

(5) The IE plugin initiates an invite request (i.e. a play request) to Mserver (i.e. a monitoring dispatch server) through the SIP protocol.

(6) And the Mserver replies a response message to the IE plug-in through the SIP protocol and initiates a play request to the monitoring sharing platform through the video networking protocol so as to regulate the flow.

(7) And the monitoring sharing platform sends a playing request to the monitoring access server through the video networking protocol so as to regulate the flow.

(8) The monitoring access server sends a playing request to target monitoring equipment (such as a network camera) through an SIP protocol or an H.323 protocol.

(9) The target monitoring equipment returns the monitoring video stream to the monitoring access server through the SIP protocol or the H.323 protocol.

(10) And the monitoring access server returns the monitoring video stream to the monitoring sharing platform through the video networking protocol.

(11) The monitoring sharing platform returns the monitoring video stream to the IE plugin through an internet protocol (e.g., RTP protocol).

(12) And after receiving the monitoring video stream, the IE plugin decodes and records the monitoring video stream and stores the monitoring video stream locally.

The embodiment of the invention can directly play the monitoring video in the local by utilizing the IE browser and the IE plug-in, monitor and record the monitoring video being played, and the monitoring video file is stored in the local, so that a user can watch the monitoring video at any time without binding a video network terminal to check the video.

It should be noted that, for simplicity of description, the method embodiments are described as a series of acts or combination of acts, but those skilled in the art will recognize that the present invention is not limited by the illustrated order of acts, as some steps may occur in other orders or concurrently in accordance with the embodiments of the present invention. Further, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the embodiments described in the specification are presently preferred and that no particular act is required to implement the invention.

Example four

Referring to fig. 8, a block diagram of a monitoring and recording apparatus according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention is shown. The monitoring and recording device of the embodiment of the invention can be applied to a video network, and the video network at least comprises a monitoring and scheduling client, a monitoring and scheduling server, a monitoring and sharing platform and a monitoring and accessing server which are provided with IE plug-ins.

The monitoring and recording device of the embodiment of the invention can comprise an IE plug-in, and the IE plug-in can comprise the following modules:

a generating module 801, configured to receive information of a target monitoring device after being started, and generate a play request for the target monitoring device;

a sending module 802, configured to send the play request to the monitoring scheduling server through a first internet protocol, and send the play request to the monitoring sharing platform through the monitoring scheduling server through a video internet protocol;

a receiving module 803, configured to receive a monitoring video stream of the target monitoring device, which is returned by the monitoring sharing platform through a second internet protocol for the play request; the monitoring video stream is acquired from the monitoring access server by the monitoring sharing platform through a video networking protocol;

the recording module 804 is configured to record the surveillance video stream to obtain a surveillance video file, and store the surveillance video file locally.

For the device embodiment, since it is basically similar to the method embodiment, the description is simple, and for the relevant points, refer to the partial description of the method embodiment.

The embodiments in the present specification are described in a progressive manner, each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a method, apparatus, or computer program product. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

Embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, terminal devices (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing terminal to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing terminal, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing terminal to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing terminal to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable terminal to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable terminal provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

While preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, additional variations and modifications of these embodiments may occur to those skilled in the art once they learn of the basic inventive concepts. Therefore, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as including preferred embodiments and all such alterations and modifications as fall within the scope of the embodiments of the invention.

Finally, it should also be noted that, herein, relational terms such as first and second, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or terminal that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or terminal. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or terminal that comprises the element.

The foregoing describes in detail a monitoring and recording method and a monitoring and recording apparatus provided by the present invention, and specific examples are applied herein to explain the principles and embodiments of the present invention, and the descriptions of the foregoing examples are only used to help understand the method and the core ideas of the present invention; meanwhile, for a person skilled in the art, according to the idea of the present invention, there may be variations in the specific embodiments and the application scope, and in summary, the content of the present specification should not be construed as a limitation to the present invention.

Claims

1. A monitoring and recording method is applied to a video network, wherein the video network comprises a monitoring scheduling client, a monitoring scheduling server, a monitoring sharing platform and a monitoring access server, wherein the monitoring scheduling client is provided with an IE plug-in, and the method comprises the following steps:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the monitoring scheduling client is further installed with an IE browser,

before the step of receiving information of a target monitoring device and generating a play request for the target monitoring device after the IE plugin is started, the method further includes:

and after receiving a plug-in starting instruction, the IE browser calls a preset plug-in playing video interface to start the IE plug-in.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the recording of the surveillance video stream by the IE plug-in to obtain a surveillance video comprises:

the IE plug-in analyzes the monitoring video stream into video data with a set format;

and the IE plug-in generates the monitoring video file by adopting the video data.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the monitoring scheduling client further installs an IE browser, and the step of recording the monitoring video stream by the IE plug-in to obtain the monitoring video file comprises:

and after receiving the recording instruction sent by the IE browser, the IE plugin records the monitoring video stream to obtain the monitoring video file.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first internet protocol is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the second internet protocol is a real-time transport protocol (RTP).

6. The utility model provides a device is recorded in control, its characterized in that, the device is applied to in the video networking, the video networking is including the control scheduling client, control scheduling server, control shared platform and the control access server who installs IE plug-in, IE plug-in includes:

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the monitoring scheduling client is further installed with an IE browser, the IE browser comprising:

and the calling module is used for calling a preset plug-in playing video interface to start the IE plug-in after receiving a plug-in starting instruction.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the recording module comprises:

the video analyzing unit is used for analyzing the monitoring video stream into video data with a set format;

and the file generating unit is used for generating the monitoring video file by adopting the video data.

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the monitoring scheduling client is further installed with an IE browser,

the recording module is specifically configured to record the surveillance video stream to obtain the surveillance video file after receiving a recording instruction sent by the IE browser.

10. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the first internet protocol is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and the second internet protocol is a real-time transport protocol (RTP).