Re: [gentoo-user] mpeg4ip - replacement

[Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>]

On 10/25/14 13:51, Walter Dnes wrote:
>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) ?
>
>-- 
>Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
>I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

* I'm using only IP addresses no domain name.
* on the remote computer camera is on 10.10.0.127 IP address
so I open port 9090 and forwarded to IP  10.10.0.127:80 on the remote firewall

When I tried mplayer, I get:

mplayer rtsp://66.18.xxx.xxx:9090/mpeg4/media.amp
MPlayer SVN-r36370 (Gentoo)-4.7.3 (C) 2000-2013 MPlayer Team
MMX2 supported but disabled

Playing rtsp://66.18.xxx.xxx:9090/mpeg4/media.amp.
Resolving 66.18.xxx.xxx for AF_INET6...

Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: 66.18.xxx.xxx
Connecting to server 66.18.xxx.xxx[66.18.xxx.xxx]: 9090...

librtsp: server responds: 'HTTP/1.0 501 Not Implemented'
STREAM_LIVE555, URL: rtsp://66.18.xxx.xxx:9090/mpeg4/media.amp
Stream not seekable!
 file format detected.
Failed to get a SDP description from URL "rtsp://66.18.210.217:9090/mpeg4/media.amp": 501 Not Implemented


-- 
Joseph