I can currently take a Dahua RTSP stream and display on a website but since IP cameras are ONVIF (most) I cant really see the need to take just any RTSP stream and record it to a DVR.
#Onvif vlc Pc#
Once located you can test the Stream in VLC. Almost IP surveillance cameras support RTSP video stream, that means user can use media player to watch the live video from anywhere. I can easily receive streams from these devices on PC using VLC with the rtsp protocol command. If you have located your camera with a different ONVIF Tool then you can get the Stream URL from there. If you have located your camera on the network with Shinobi's built in ONVIF Scanner then you can simply click the Copy button next to the search result.
#Onvif vlc password#
USERNAME being swapped with your camera's login username and PASSWORD being for the password associated. When you started your stream in VLC it may have looked like this. If it asked you for a username and password then you need to put that into the Stream URL manually before Saving the configuration in Shinobi.
In short : Use that Stream URL in Shinobi. You may also check ShinobiHub's Explore page for pre-created configurations posted by the community. If you have not acquired a Stream URL you may scan for it upon ONVIF compliant cameras. Paste the Stream URL that you have acquired.
Terminology may differ based on Operating System. Is classified as an IP Camera (not P2P camera)
#Onvif vlc software#
So that’s it, those are the main problems that we see with RTSP and ONVIF URLs.The easiest way to check if it works in Shinobi is to know whether or not in a similar application, like VLC.Ĭan be accessed by software not made by the camera vendor If, however, it doesn’t work then it’s almost certainly the username and password that’s wrong, or as I said earlier a lot of products do not come ONVIF ready out the box, so you may have to then log back into the product, set up some settings to make sure that it is actually broadcasting ONVIF profiles. If that happens, you know that that particular ONVIF product is working, and the username and password is correct. You then go and click ‘go’, it hopefully then picks up that stream and you’ll see live video. The next thing it will ask you to do is pick one of the ones that you found, you then log back into ONVIF Device Manager and change the username and password, which relates to that particular encoder. So the first thing ONVIF device manager does is it goes out and looks for all the ONVIF devices. If it’s a ONVIF stream, as I’ve mentioned in some of the other videos that we’ve done, the thing to do is download ONVIF Device Manager, because ONVIF Device Manager has a way of testing whether the ONVIF stream is working or not. So that’s the quickest way to do a sort of quick health check, whether the RTSP is streaming because VLC Player is a very universal player, it will decode almost, pretty much anything that’s out there as a RTSP URL.
So the first thing you need to do is put the username and password into the URL, and that should overcome that particular problem, and once you’ve cut and pasted it, put it back into VLC Player and press play, hopefully you’ll get video playing, if the video still doesn’t play, or if that popup window didn’t appear, then there is something completely wrong with the RTSP URL and it may be that you’ve missed out the port, or the port is different, or the actual URL itself is wrong. If that happens, you know that the URL that you just pasted is missing the username and password. VLC will either work or it won’t work – if it works you’ll get video playing if it doesn’t work, then you know you’ve got a problem, but what you may find is it will bring up a little pop-up window and this pop-up window will say username and password.
#Onvif vlc free#
VLC Player is a free piece of software where you can open up a network stream in VLC, you can type the URL or copy and paste the URL into VLC and press play. So, the first thing is, if the RTSP stream is not working in your VMS, what we suggest is that you try VLC Player. I’ve already spoken about ONVIF and discovering ONVIF products, so I’m going to focus a little bit more about RTSP. So there are two forms of stream that a camera or encoder will generate, one is called RTSP, the other one is called ONVIF. Okay, so today I just want to talk about another problem with VMS, is that sometimes they won’t display an encoded stream, or they that just won’t work with a particular encoder or IP camera. He also offers a variety of solutions to help you get your technology working. In our regular feature, owner of Antrica Les Litwin explains some of common IP streaming issues you can encounter when using Video Managment Systems.