Dear Maintainer, After upgrading vlc-3.0.11 to 3.0.12 RTSP streams are not displayed anymore. I checked if all modules and plugins are installed. All, which are available on Debian Sid, are installed but rtsp access+demux is not. Downgraded to version 3.0.11 to regain the functionality and could watch stream of my security cameras again. This problem persists on Sid/Bullseye and on Testing. Thank you for all your hard work!
Hi Eike That's expected. We had to disable those plugins as liblivemedia constains non-free code. See #981439. Maybe that's wort a NEWS entry and a note in the release-notes. Cheers
Oh, that is a bad news..... :( Would you please tell me if you have any plan to rewrite some code to play RTSP stream again? It is a very fine function. Best regards, Gulfstream
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
Trying to stream a cctv camera.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Linux VLC refused to stream, but Android VLC streamed the camera
* What was the outcome of this action?
Jun 9 23:58:20 lepton vlc[246391]: no art finder modules matched
Jun 9 23:58:20 lepton vlc[246391]: Failed to setup RTSP session
Jun 9 23:58:20 lepton vlc[246391]: net: connecting to 192.168.1.142 port 554
Jun 9 23:58:20 lepton vlc[246391]: connection succeeded (socket = 38)
Jun 9 23:58:20 lepton vlc[246391]: Cseq mismatch, got 1, assumed 0
Jun 9 23:58:20 lepton vlc[246391]: rtsp connected
Jun 9 23:58:20 lepton vlc[246391]: only real/helix rtsp servers supported for now
Jun 9 23:58:20 lepton vlc[246391]: no access modules matched
Jun 9 23:58:20 lepton vlc[246391]: dead input
Jun 9 23:58:20 lepton vlc[246391]: IM: Deleting the input
Jun 9 23:58:20 lepton vlc[246391]: changing item without a request (current 0/1)
Jun 9 23:58:20 lepton vlc[246391]: nothing to play
* What outcome did you expect instead?
For it to work like in Android vlc...
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Can you point me to the non-free code ? RTSP has been a really nice feature in VLC for some time. I really would like to see the support continue. Right now it's difficult to tell what's happening with the client because there are very vague error messages in the console : Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'rtsp://ubnt:admin@192.168.2.76:554/s1'. Check the log for details. ^ This doesn't give the user a reason without looking deeper... so we go on to enabling the environment variable to see what's going on : export VLC_VERBOSE=3 Example: [00007fc288001850] main stream debug: connection succeeded (socket = 43) [00007fc288001850] main stream debug: net: opening 0.0.0.0 datagram port 9048 [00007fc288001850] main stream debug: net: opening 0.0.0.0 datagram port 9049 [00007fc29c002080] lua art finder debug: Trying Lua scripts in /usr/share/vlc/lua/meta/art [00007fc29c002080] main art finder debug: no art finder modules matched [00007fc288001850] satip stream error: Failed to setup RTSP session [00007fc288001850] main stream debug: net: connecting to 192.168.2.76 port 554 [00007fc288001850] main stream debug: connection succeeded (socket = 43) [00007fc288001850] access_realrtsp stream warning: Cseq mismatch, got 1, assumed 0 [00007fc288001850] access_realrtsp stream debug: rtsp connected *[00007fc288001850] access_realrtsp stream warning: only real/helix rtsp servers supported for now*[00007fc288001850] main stream debug: no access modules matched [00005624f664e600] main playlist debug: dead input [00005624f6695330] qt interface debug: IM: Deleting the input [00005624f664e600] main playlist debug: changing item without a request (current 1/2) [00005624f664e600] main playlist debug: nothing to play [00005624f6695330] qt interface debug: Video is not needed anymore The bolded error message is, also, very vague.I need you to tell use which codecs are rejected and WHY. Please modify the error message to include the set of rejected pieces of code, I might even suggest a quick link on the topic. Otherwise, since we're talking about free/non-free code, what parts need to be written as free ? I'd love to see it as a bounty, write it myself, or post a bounty for it to be written. Thanks, Bryant Eadon ᐧ
Hello fellow Debian maintainer, I wasted several hours only to find out that Debian disabled rtsp:// while the rest of the world (VLC on Android, ffplay) is completely fine with it. Even [man:vlc(1)](https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/vlc-bin/vlc.1.en.html) stilll contains: An no 'Debian.NEW' file, not even an entry in `debian.changelog` when 3.0.12 was released. How are normal people supposed to find that out? 1. Please add an entry to debian/changelog 2. Please create a NEWS.Debian file 3. Please remove 'rtsp://' from the manual page 4. Consider printing a proper error message that support for 'rtsp://' got yanked.