List RTSP streams of network camera

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I have just puchased a Micronet SP5319 HD IP camera and there is no info in the documentation regarding the path of the streams. I only found something like rtsp://ip/mpeg4 but in the end it does not work. I have tried many different paths with many different clients such as VLC and QuickTime. No success.

I wiresharked the stream and it look like:

OPTIONS rtsp://192.168.1.90:554/h264 RTSP/1.0
CSeq: 2
User-Agent: LibVLC/2.0.4 (LIVE555 Streaming Media v2012.09.13)

RTSP/1.0 200 OK
CSeq: 2
Date: Tue, Dec 04 2012 01:12:36 GMT
Public: OPTIONS, DESCRIBE, SETUP, TEARDOWN, PLAY, PAUSE, GET_PARAMETER, SET_PARAMETER

DESCRIBE rtsp://192.168.1.90:554/h264 RTSP/1.0
CSeq: 3
User-Agent: LibVLC/2.0.4 (LIVE555 Streaming Media v2012.09.13)
Accept: application/sdp

RTSP/1.0 404 Stream Not Found
CSeq: 3
Date: Tue, Dec 04 2012 01:12:36 GMT

Look at the last response: Stream Not Found. Finally, how can I get a list of available streams? Which software should I use? I have also tried with ONVIF without success.

Best regards,

Best Answer

Had same issue, after reading tons of blogs, I find some interesting resources:

1) Here there is a huge list of rstp known URLs for certain brands. Unfortunately, mine wasn't there (the brand is kolke, if you wonder...)

2)This table shows different URLs for other cameras models. I tried several of them, without success. It was time consuming to do it with VLC, since I had to write one by one, so I wrote a small python script to test each of them with opencv and run it on a jupyter notebook:

import cv2

# need to know those before hand. I got IP with Nmap
usr = 'myuser'
pwd = 'mypassword'
ip = '192.168.1.1'

# I took the url patterns and also included some variations, just to be sure...
urls = [f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/live=2.2&username={usr}&password={pwd}',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/1',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/stream1',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/Stream1',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=0.sdp?',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=0.sdp',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/videostream.asf?user={usr}&pwd={pwd}',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/ucast/11',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/11',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/12',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/live0.264',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/mpeg4cif',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=0.sdp?',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=0.sdp',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/live1.264',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/cam1/h264',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/mpeg4cif',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/ucast/11',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/ROH/channel/11',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}_password={pwd}_channel=1_stream=0.sdp',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=0.sdp?',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}_password={pwd}_channel=1_stream=0.sdp',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}_password={pwd}_channel=1_stream=0.sdp?',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/cam1/mpeg4?user={usr}&pwd={pwd}',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/h264_stream',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/live/ch0',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/live/ch1',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=0.sdp?',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=1.sdp?',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=0&stream=1.sdp?',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=0&stream=0.sdp?',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=0.sdp',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=1.sdp',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=0&stream=1.sdp',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=0&stream=0.sdp',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/ucast/11',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/11',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/12',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/live0.264',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/mpeg4cif',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/live1.264',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/cam1/h264',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/mpeg4cif',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/ucast/11',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/ROH/channel/11',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/h264_stream',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/live/ch0',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/live/ch1',
       ]

def test_url(url):
    # try to open the stream
    cap = cv2.VideoCapture(url)
    ret = cap.isOpened()  # if it was succesfully opened, that's the URL you need
    cap.release()
    return ret

# then you just need to check those URLs
for url in urls:
    if test_url(url):
        print(url)

And then I got what I've been looking for:

rtsp://192.168.1.1:554/user=myuser&password=mypassword&channel=1&stream=0.sdp?

Hope it helps!

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OK, simple as this to stream using HTTP.

I created a virtual folder called 'Music' with IIS on WinXP and pointed it at a folder containing mp3 files. This is the complete Activity needed to stream a file (name hard-coded).

BTW, it's called SimpleNetRadio as I originally started playing around with Shoutcast streams.

package com.mycompany.SimpleNetRadio;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.media.AsyncPlayer;
import android.media.AudioManager;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleNetRadio extends Activity
{
    private AsyncPlayer ap = null;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onStart() {
        super.onStart();
        ap = (AsyncPlayer) getLastNonConfigurationInstance();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onStop() {
        super.onStop();
        if (ap != null)
            ap.stop();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();

        if (ap == null) {
            ap = new AsyncPlayer("Simple Player");
            ap.play(this, Uri.parse("http://192.168.1.1/Music/02%20-%20Don't%20Stop%20Believin'.mp3"), true, AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Object onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() {
        return ap;
    }
}

You should also be able to do this with MediaPlayer with a bit more code - it would handle error conditions better and wouldn't require much more work.

RTSP streaming on Android client using FFMpeg

I was in a similar situation some time ago (I wanted to stream an mp3 from an RTMP server) and it was extremely frustrating. However, I managed to scrape together some code that actually did what it was supposed to. Some pointers:

You don't want to expose ffmpeg's API to your Java code. Instead, consider creating helper functions like openRTSPStream(String url) and keep the ffmpeg stuff in your C/C++ code. I say this because ffmpeg makes heavy use of pointers and dynamic memory allocation that would make it a pain to try and use it from Java.
The script you used to compile the library uses the flag --disable-everything which also means that it probably disables RTSP support. I'd recommend that you either remove that flag or run the configure script with --list-protocol, --list-demuxer, --list-muxer, --list-encoder, and --list-decoder (or something along those lines) to get an idea of what you need to enable. You need to keep in mind the format and encoding of the video and the audio and what you will be decoding it to.
While you are reading the packets from the stream, your native code could send buffers to your Java code through a callback function which would in turn display the buffers as video/audio.

Here is another SO post that might interest you: Record RTSP stream with FFmpeg libavformat

Let me know if you need some sample code or further clarification.

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