FFMPEG API: How to connect to RTSP stream using av_open_input_file?

ffmpeg rtsp-client
Alexander Kulyakhtin picture Alexander Kulyakhtin · Oct 26, 2011 · Viewed 14.7k times · Source

I'm trying to connect to some RTSP stream using av_open_input_file() like this:

AVFormatContext* ic; avcodec_register_all(); av_register_all(); av_open_input_file(&ic, "rtsp://login:[email protected]/videoinput_1/mjpeg/media.stm", NULL, 4096, NULL);

It always returns 'file not found'. The same url, though, I can see in, say, VLC player. Do I do something wrong in my code?

I'm using FFMPEG 0.6, shall I use the latest instead?

Answer

Alexander Kulyakhtin picture Alexander Kulyakhtin · Nov 3, 2011

Turned out I did not enable network support when building FFMPEG.

The following options worked for me:

--enable-network --enable-protocol=tcp --enable-demuxer=rtsp --enable-decoder=h264

Related questions

Record RTSP stream with FFmpeg libavformat

I'm trying to record RTSP stream from Axis camera with FFmpeg libavformat. I can grab video from files and then save it to another file, this is OK. But camera sends strange data, FPS is 100 and camera sends every 4th …

Read More
Cutting the videos based on start and end time using ffmpeg

I tried to cut the video using the start and end time of the video by using the following command ffmpeg -ss 00:00:03 -t 00:00:08 -i movie.mp4 -acodec copy -vcodec copy -async 1 cut.mp4 By using the above command i want …

Read More