Re: [gentoo-user] mpeg4ip - replacement

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 09:41:20AM -0600, Joseph wrote

> Well, the remote camera is Axis 207 so it has its own server. There
> is no mplayer on it.  When I access camera from the network computer
> the same as camera is on both vlc and mplayer work.  But when I try
> to stream over the internet (from different) it doesn't work.
> 
> Can mpalyer stream the mpeg 4 video file over rtsp; I think only
> vlc can do it.

  You mentioned in a previous message that mplayer and vlc work on one
computer, but not on the other.  So we know they both work.  I think the
problem is somewhere in the remote access.  How are you accessing the
rtsp stream?  Is it like so (example name and numbers)...

mplayer rtsp://10.1.2.3/stream_name

  Things to check...

* if you're using a domain name rather than an IP address, is it defined
  in the remote machine's /etc/hosts ?

* is the remote machine's firewall blocking the camera's IP address ?

* is the camera set to only stream to a specific IP address (range) ?

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications