Adding video from Alta Video to your integration

Last modified: Thursday May 02, 2024.

A common integration for video surveillance systems is the requirement to add the video streams from the surveillance cameras into your central monitoring or similar systems. To enable this type of integration, Alta Video provides the tools needed to create the video streams to be viewed from your external systems.

The Alta Video application programming interface (API) includes the commands and methods needed to create the integrations between the Alta Video deployment and the system used to display the video feeds.

You can configure your integration to consume the video from your Alta Video deployment by using Cloud RTSP. Cloud RTSP does not have many technical requirements, but it does require that the media always traverses via the Alta Cloud.

Additionally, you can use HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) to view the video streams from your Alta Video deployment in compatible HTML5 video players.