* On 2025 20 Nov 09:17 -0600, Anders Andersson wrote: > 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 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 -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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