On Fri, 2025-11-21 at 13:45 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2025 20 Nov 09:17 -0600, Anders Andersson wrote: > > 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 > > Same here. Quite a bit of frustration only to learn this fact. I > uninstalled the Debian version and installed the Flatpak version of > VLC > and it works well. Until a few days ago, having a couple of RSTP > camears was the only reason I used VLC at all. Now I've been playing > with an HD Homerun TV tuner and learned it can stream over HTTP and > VLC > plays it just fine. > > Incidentally, I've an older Grandstream camera that will only play > video > from its Web page using a plugin that only works with MS Internet > Explorer, as I recall. VLC plays its RSTP stream just fine. > > Does Debian have an uncrippled version of VLC in its non-free > repository (I'm too lazy to look right now)? > > - Nate
I use ffplay (it is, IIRC, part of the ffmpeg suite) with a command line like this: ffplay -window_title "<camera name>" -hide_banner rtsp://<user>:<pwd>@<ipa>:554/h264Preview_01_sub The guesswork come with the last bit; "h264Preview_01_sub" in this example. There are websites which list these, and some DVR programs can sniff them out for you. Chris.
