Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
[MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras
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@evroom I ran the following command via SSH to a headless RPi 4. I stopped MM2 via PM2 so the RPi4 GUI desktop is all I see.
omxplayer -g rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.20/live
The omxplayer.log file looks like this:
23:13:40 T:18446744072105597939 DEBUG: DllBcm: Using omx system library
23:13:40 T:18446744072105599016 DEBUG: DllOMX: Using omx system library
23:13:40 T:18446744072105599609 DEBUG: DllAvFormat: Using libavformat system library
23:13:40 T:18446744072105600891 DEBUG: DBus connection succeeded
23:13:40 T:18446744072105601616 DEBUG: Keyboard: DBus connection succeeded
23:13:40 T:18446744072105601755 DEBUG: OMXThread::Create - Thread with id -1387290944 started
23:13:40 T:18446744072105601853 DEBUG: DllAvUtilBase: Using libavutil system library
23:13:40 T:18446744072105601872 DEBUG: DllAvCodec: Using libavcodec system library
23:13:40 T:18446744072105601888 DEBUG: DllAvFormat: Using libavformat system library
23:13:40 T:18446744072105602188 DEBUG: COMXPlayer::OpenFile - avformat_open_input rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.20/live
23:13:43 T:18446744072108706892 DEBUG: COMXPlayer::OpenFile - avformat_open_input enabled SEEKING
23:13:43 T:18446744072108707062 ERROR: COMXPlayer::OpenFile - avformat_open_input rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.20/live
23:13:43 T:18446744072108717572 DEBUG: OMXThread::Run - Exited thread with id -1387290944
23:13:43 T:18446744072108718100 DEBUG: OMXThread::StopThread - Thread stopped -
@dwburger said in [MMM-RTSPStream] - Video Streaming from Live Feeds & Security Cameras:
rtsp://admin:admin@192.168.1.20/live
I see I made an error with the rtsp URL. Here’s the correct one for my Wyze cam masking the username and password:
rtsp://d____:b____@192.168.1.117/live
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@dwburger It took several seconds, but entering the correct rtsp URL got my camera’s video stream onto the RPi4 screen (full-screen). I’ll follow it a while to see how stable it is.
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OK…I’ve got it displaying my Wyze rtsp live stream on the screen while MM2 is running. The live stream seems to start and stop so I’ll work on that. Also, I need to position it in the correct place (lower-right corner).
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@dwburger Looks like you’re on the way. Good luck to you!
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@BKeyport Yes, making good progress thanks to those of you who’ve helped. I’m having a difficult time with placing the window. I can get it in the upper-left of the screen using --win “0 0 600 300”, but I can’t seem to manipulate those coordinates to get the window to the lower-right. Can you point me to information that will help me understand this?
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Here’s how to do that.
The coordinates are Top Left Bottom Right, assuming the monitor is in NORMAL mode (no rotation)
So, if your monitor is 1920×1080. say, that’s your bottom and right coordinate to get it into the bottom right corner.
top would be 1920 - WindowHeight
left would be 1080 - WindowWidthusing your example window size, and my example monitor size it would be, “1320 780 1920 1080”
If you’d like to make the window bigger or smaller, you can refer to https://bneijt.nl/pr/resolution-scale-calculator/ to compute different sizes that won’t distort the image.
Note: if you rotate your monitor, the normal/no rotation resolution is used for the calculations. so, in addition to adding “rotate” to the string, you’ll need to recalculate the sides to match.
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@BKeyport Yep, that did it…thanks! Your explanation was so clear and concise (and simple). I don’t understand why I didn’t find a similar explanation on the web somewhere. I appreciate the help very much!
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Please pardon the rant…I got started down this path today since I was having stability issues with vlc inside the MMM-RTSPStream module. Now that I’ve gotten my Wyze RTSP stream working outside MM2 using omxplayer (with lots of expert help), I’m still having stability issues. The stream lasts for a few seconds to a few minutes and then vanishes. When I look at the RPi4 console, omxplayer has stopped giving me the “have a nice day” message. That’s cute and all, but It’s starting to annoy me. One advantage to the use of omxplayer is that I can easily automate restarting it. But, that doesn’t really address what seems to be a core issue with my Wyze camera or wifi ecosystem or ??? I don’t know enough about IP cams or streaming video or video players to know whether this is technically difficult to do or not, but it sure seems like all this should work way better than it does. Just sayin’.
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@dwburger You’re right of course. It should be a ton easier. But, we’re at the mercy of people who know how to program this ((#%#% to understand what the average user wants, and that’s usually barking up the tree at a cat that’s long gone…
