Support for Foscam FI8918W IP Camera

btaroli wrote:

Been doing some more research, and there *is* a path to supporting the very newest Foscam model, the FI9821W (though the critical factor is H.264 support, so the FI9820W is supported too), using the newly released DVBLink IPTV module. Seems that IPTV, for them, includes H.264 streams from cameras. :D So I'm leaning now toward doing that for my needs instead of waiting around for full support with the Surveillance add-on.

For anyone who had tried H.264 from a Foscam camera with DVBLink IPTV, you probably experienced problems. I sure did with the FI9821W. Turns out that the issue was that the Foscam required digest (not basic, clear-text) authentication and DVBLogic hadn't yet implemented that for the IPTV module. It's not GA yet, but as of build 8706 of the IPTV module, this is WORKING. As of this morning I am successfully able to record from my 9821's! It may take a brief time for DVBLogic to put out a regular update release that incorporates the changes from this debug build, but just wanted to let folks know there had been some movement here. DVBLogic gets huge praise for this, as they actively work with customers to address these sorts of issues!