On 20.11.2025 18:42, Chris Green wrote:
Peter Milesson <[email protected]> wrote:
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On 20.11.2025 15:34, Chris Green 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?
Hi Chris,
According to the manual the command is rtsp://<IP address/mpeg4/media.amp
I have found VLC tricky to use under Linux, better try to use something
that is ffmpeg based. For starters, install ffmpeg and then use ffplay
to verify the function.
I tried ffplay and got:-
chris$ ffplay rtsp://192.168.1.254/mpeg4/media.amp
...
...
[rtsp @ 0x7f1c4c000c80] Could not find codec parameters for stream
0 (Video: mpeg4 (Advanced Simple Profile), none, 640x480 [SAR 1:1
DAR 4:3]): unspecified pixel format
Consider increasing the value for the 'analyzeduration' (0) and
'probesize' (5000000) options
Input #0, rtsp, from 'rtsp://192.168.1.254/mpeg4/media.amp':
Metadata:
title : Media Presentation
Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0:0: Video: mpeg4 (Advanced Simple Profile), none, 640x480 [SAR
1:1 DAR 4:3], 1k tbr, 90k tbn
nan M-V: nan fd= 0 aq= 0KB vq= 0KB sq= 0B
You should be able to access the camera's web interface through
http://<IP address>. Administrator account (hard coded) is root. If you
do not know the current root password, you need to make a factory reset.
That's probably the best option, which gives you opportunity to setup
the camera to your own preferences. You can also set the IP address with
arp, command syntax:
I have access to the web interface after a reset to factory defaults.
The camera gets its IP address from my DHCP server so is easy enough
to find.
Hi Chris,
Is there any video in the camera's web interface? If not, the camera is
probably borked.
Your best bet could be to install a media player like SMPlayer, MPlayer
or mvp. Those players do not use VLC. Just make sure your video drivers
are up to date, which also includes hardware acceleration drivers (mesa,
vulkan and the like).
Unfortunately, I do not have very good experiences with video on Debian.
Arch linux is better there, and always bleeding edge (sometimes too much).
I just installed MPlayer for trying video (Trixie, old Intel hardware
from about 2017). The camera I chose is a very old Axis 210, and it
probably contains the same hardware as yours. Run the following command:
mplayer rtsp://root:<password>@<IP-address>/mpeg4/media.amp
I got video in a second. Note that you probably need the root:password
pair to get a stream (configurable).
Best regards,
Peter
