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,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * 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.

Hello,

Bug #982299 in vlc reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/vlc/-/commit/f74e5388f654f4c8edcc94ff5bafa42bda429998
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Renable live555 plugin

Closes: #982299
------------------------------------------------------------------------

(this message was generated automatically)
-- 
Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/982299

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
vlc, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 982299@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> (supplier of updated vlc package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:31:56 +0200
Source: vlc
Architecture: source
Version: 3.0.24-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers <debian-multimedia@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>
Closes: 982299 1149277
Changes:
 vlc (3.0.24-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Upload to unstable
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