Re: How to view output of Axis 207 Network Camera?
On Thu, Nov 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> 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
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