Hiya shaywood,
I've searched in the past for accessing Q-See streams with little luck (Another user was also searching -
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=83&p=172). I just poked around again and have found a variety of people around the internet trying to get direct access to video streams with no luck. I'm afraid I have no solution at the moment. You might try contacting the manufacturer and asking them if they have a method to expose the video streams third party software, it is possible that your model or newer firmware for their devices support this now.