[MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras

costascontis

i am using vlc as local player to play my stream locally just fine.When i try to access MM from my pc (chrome) using http://mmip:8080 ,my stream is not starting at all.Using ffmpeg for remote player and i also test my stream using ffplay and it works just fine at my rpi3b.What is wrong ???

BKeyport

@costascontis Try a different local player. In testing of the last version I used, VLC had an invalid command line. I honestly have abandoned the module totally in favor of an external approach for the camera.

costascontis

@BKeyport i dont have any problem with vlc as local player ,my issue is with remote player,ffmpeg.I am trying to see the feed from windows pc with chrome.Every other module is working fine ,the live feed is starting but i only see black,no camera image.

BKeyport

@costascontis oh, sorry, I misunderstood.

zzricezz

I’m assuming if i just have 1 stream, it will most likely cause a burn-in issue? any good idea? like transition between a black backgroup ever minute or so for couple of seconds?

Thanks,

BKeyport

@zzricezz burn in is mostly a non-issue in modern screens, however, I severely doubt a stream isn’t gonna do anything like that, unless you’re streaming a closet… there’s enough movement on most streams that even things that are locked into place move around (due to encoding bugs, etc)

dwburger

I’ve got this module working with my Wyze camera, but the connection drops and the image freezes after a few minutes. Is there a way to automatically reconnect to the camera from within the module? I can do it by stopping and starting MM2 using PM2, but I’d rather not have to do that every few minutes. Thanks for any help or guidance!

evroom

Hi,

You can try adding this line to the config:

omxRestart: 1,

Automatically restart the OMX Stream every X hours.
Default: 24 (hours).

Btw. Assuming you use omxplayer. Do not have experience with other players.

localPlayer: 'omxplayer',

But getting rid of the root cause of connection dropping and image freezing after a few minutes seems better time invested.

evroom

@evroom said in [MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras:

Btw. Assuming you use omxplayer. Do not have experience with other players.

I use omxplayer ‘standalone’, not within MM, but under control of pm2.
When I restart my camera, the omxplayer is connecting to the stream automatically.
No restart of the omxplayer stream needed.
Just FYI.

dwburger

@evroom Thanks! I haven’t been able to get OMXplayer to work, only VLC. However, if I can’t get the auto-restart to work with VLC, I’ll see if I can’t get OMXplayer to work.