On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have just acquired a (free) Axiz 207 camera. It appears to work OK > as its web server runs and I can access all the settings etc. > > However I have a fundamental problem, I can't view the images it's > sending. I think this may be because it uses RTSP to send images. > > I tried one RTSP viewer (Gardinal's) but that failed miserably. > > I'm not really very clear how it's all supposed to work, I can't get > any plain RTSP:// URLs from the camera, the only URL I have seen so > far is:- > rtsptextrtsp://dummyurl/mpeg4/media.amp > > Can anyone help, with a program that will understand what the camera > is outputting?
Just a comment that may be helpful: Debian silently disabled RTSP support in VLC, but kept the documentation that claims it works. That cost me a lot of time when I recently tried to get a camera to work. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=982299
