Cannot stream some cameras

Max

Administrator
Staff member
Hello

For bad RTSP URLs, please gather pcap - logs with VLC player for each bad URL.

1) Make sure the bad stream is playing in the VLC player
1. Launch VLC player on your PC.
2. Click Menu Media > Open Network Stream
3. Copy and paste the "bad" RTSP URL there.
4. Click Play.

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1) Launch Wireshark on your PC and start recording of all RTSP traffic BEFORE playing in VLC.

1. Launch Wireshark with Administrator rights (sudo wireshark for Ubuntu)
2. Click Capture > Options
3. Find your network interface, i.e. Wi-Fi wlp1s0
4. Click Start in Wireshark
5. Click Play in VLC
6. Wait for 10 seconds of established playback.
7. Click Stop in VLC.
8. Click Stop in Wireshark.
9. Make sure you have captured RTSP packets in the dump.
10. Save the pcap dump file and send us zipped file or download link.


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Max

Administrator
Staff member
The dump contains no RTSP streams at all:
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But the file bad.txt contains the 400 Bad request error message:
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Seems like the bad camera declines OPTIONS or DESCRIBE request. Please check the camera or DVR setup.
 
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