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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    Ah, gotcha. I had my wires crossed on that part. After playing around with it some more, I'm seeing two problems as of now: 1 - no audio on the YT feed (I hear it in VLC). 2- after some random amount of time the ffmpeg fps will drop to 1, ffmpeg will eat up about 50% of my CPU power and the...
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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    I guess YT live had an rmtp server error and that's why it locked up on me, at least that's what ffmpeg said when I got home. I've gotten several other ffmpeg errors tonight though - I must have killed and restarted the stream five times. I thought the "-b:a 128k" was supposed to limit the...
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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    Interesting - I let ffmpeg run overnight and my computer was frozen this morning. Restarted it, fired up ffmpeg again and left for work. If you click the link in my previous post, it says the stream is offline right now, but about 20 minutes ago it would show about 7 seconds of the feed and...
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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    HOLY. SHIT. It didn't work the first time, but I tried the exact same command line input the 2nd time and it works! Cam is pretty zoomed in here and it's dark in here, but... rickenbackerman1 Live Stream - YouTube nayr, I may have more questions since it seems like the feed is kinda glitchy...
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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    damn emoticons are showing up again, ugh, so you're not seeing what I'm actually inputting... and I X'd out my camera's IP, although I guess I didn't really need to. Yes, running from a cmd window. Not sure what you mean by "escape the url"
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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    Nayr, I tried using ffmpeg using the code you pasted above. I know the rtsp works because I can see the stream with VLC. In ffmpeg I get the following error: rtsp://user:[email protected]:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1 Invalid argument (all in red). Any ideas? Maybe because I'm not...
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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    Baby steps... I was able to log in to the camera and view the live feed with VLC using: rtsp://username : password @ ip : port/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0 (With no spaces, emoticons were showing up here) Took several tries w/variations on this using what nayr calls "google fu" (good...
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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    I tried creating an account there about five times - I never get a confirmation email (and yes, I checked my spam folder). Apparently even their forum has bugs. Zero interest in the app, I want to stream to youtube live. Out of curiosity, though - does the app still work if you are away from...
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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    Yeah, I think I'm just wasting my time with this shitty rebranded junk. Back to amazon (China, hell, I don't care, as long as it's not here) it will go. So if I can't access the PTZ capabilities remotely, what's the point, right? That was my whole goal when this IP cam thing all started for...
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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    SmartPSS looks almost exactly like Amcrest's "surveillance Pro" which is extremely buggy as well. It will recognize my cam as long as I manually add it but I can't view it. I'm pretty much convinced Amcrest = garbage. Like I said earlier when I started this thread, it's too bad, because the...
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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    Thanks nayr, yeah - IE for sure - no edge. I'll give SmartPSS a looksee. Regarding "Resources are limited" in firefox - I tried everything. Lowering the frame rate, bit rate, resolution, all of it. Says the same shit over and over. Encode mode is set to H.264.
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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    I'm learning here. Slowly. OBS studio is out, it's too limited. I installed ffmpeg but only just started playing around with it. Wondering if I should just bail on this camera since I can still return it. Amcrest claims it works with IE and firefox. Here's what I see on my LAN in IE...
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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    Thanks nayr, but I'm assuming that's ffmpeg code? I'm just playing around w/ OBS studio. I'm a mechanical engineer and I work at NASA (really!), but I am no com-sci. I don't even know what h264 means. Starting to think I'm in over my head here and best to stick w/my old a$$ logitech 500 pile...
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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    I downloaded ffmpeg but I haven't played around with it yet. I've been messing with OBS studio to see if I can get it to work. I can log in to the Amcrest cam using: http://username:password@IP:port/cgi-bin/mjpg/video.cgi ?[channel=<channelno>]&subtype=1 ...but the video quality is...
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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    So I realized that wirecast only supports IP cameras if you buy their pro version, which is super expensive... Can anybody recommend a decent free encoding option? What about OBS studio? nayr, what do you use?
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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    Thanks nayr, I installed Wirecast today and set up a youtube live channel for my old logitech camera and got it working decently (the picture quality isn't that great, never has been though). Took a couple hours of fiddling around since I'm not all that tech-savvy... Wirecast won't connect to...
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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    Thanks, I was actually just reading those! What a coinkinkydink - Fenderman/Rickenbackerman! BTW my router is a verizon MI424WR which does not appear to support VPN. edit - since I see you edited since I posted - I thought Amcrest was rebranded Foscam? At any rate, I can get the video feed...
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    Hey all, I'm the new guy here, PLEASE help me...

    I've had a crappy logitech webcam set up and port forwarded through my router to stream through the camstreams.com website for about 10 years now (to spy on my turtle and iguana while at work, haha). The camstreams site is going down soon, so I thought I'd try out one of these IP cams. I...
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