rstp stream help please

[wddossett]

Hi,
This is embarrassing, but - I can't get rstp streaming to work from blue iris 5. for like two days... I have tried. and I am a network admin of like 20 years experience.

Google says to make sure the web server is enabled and then use rest:/userassword@ipaddress:554/shortname

I am doing this in vlc but getting nowhere. It just keeps saying your input can't be opened.

And indeed when I look at netstat on my blue iris system, nothing is listening on port 554. My web server is listening on port 81. Google says modern versions of blue iris have rstp enabled automatically.

I have tried using port 81, vlc just sort of stalls and gives me no feed back at all.

I have also tried connecting direct to cameras - all of them have rstp enabled - Blue Iris is using it on some of them...

I have amcrest cameras - I am looking at the camera setup and I don't see a path to put on the end of the rstp url - but I see the one in blue iris and have tried adding
/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0&unicast=true&proto=Onvif

still nothing

I have scanned the cameras and port 554 is open - I am obviously doing something fundamentally wrong here but I can't figure out what. oh and the firewall is wide open for this testing on my blue iris system

Any advice at all would be appreciated.

thank you.

bill

 

[Bruce_H]

FYI: Another user was just reporting that they were having problems connecting VLC to a camera using RTSP, he was thinking it might be a bug in VLC!

 

[TonyR]

If you want to stream RTSP from your BI server to VLC running on a PC (not from the camera itself) on the same LAN, try this:

rtsp:/BI-user:BI-password@BI-LAN-IP:BI-port/BI-CameraShortname

Example:
rtsp:/admin:[email protected]:81/Cam57

NOTES:
1) Be sure to place 2 "/" after "rtsp:" as the forum won't display two consecutively.
2) Regarding 'authentication' in the URL: You may add &user=username&pw=password to any HTTP request, but only if use secure session keys and login page is disabled on the Advanced page in Settings/Web server

EDIT @ 1542 CDT 3/31: FWIW, the above info can be found in BI's built-in "Help" under "HTTP Interface>Camera Commands>RTSP Server"

 

[TonyR]

FYI: Another user was just reporting that they were having problems connecting VLC to a camera using RTSP, he was thinking it might be a bug in VLC!

That's still a possibility with that other OP in the other thread, but the OP of this thread is not using the correct URL in post #1 (port 554 is wrong, that may be OK directly from camera, but not via BI).

 

[wddossett]

thanks all... you probably didn't notice - and this is highly embarrassing - but I was typing and had it in my head that it was RSTP - when of course it should be RTSP. real time streaming protocol - that's what I get when I just use an acronym without knowing what it means.

I still can't get it to play from BI - but I am getting closer - now that I know the right port, will look more at docs - I did search for RSTP and couldn't find anything - duh. thanks again.