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Posted: **20 Jun 2018 14:36**

When trying to VOD stream a local file, the server seems to load the file correctly, but the client always return a 404 error code:

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$ vlc --ttl 3 -vvv --color -I telnet --telnet-password videolan --rtsp-host 0.0.0.0 --rtsp-port 5554
[Media: Test] main input debug: `file:///home/yk/20180528.176947814.Vu.mp4' gives access `file' demux `any' path `/home/yk/20180528.176947814.Vu.mp4'
[Media: Test] main input source debug: creating demux: access='file' demux='any' location='/home/yk/20180528.176947814.Vu.mp4' file='/home/yk/20180528.176947814.Vu.mp4'
[Media: Test] main input debug: `file:///home/yk/20180528.176947814.Vu.mp4' successfully opened
[Media: Test] main input debug: Stream buffering done (500 ms in 10 ms)
[Media: Test] main input debug: EOF reached
stream_out_rtp vod server debug: media 'Test' has 2 declared ES
stream_out_rtp vod server debug: we found a startcode for NAL with TYPE:7
stream_out_rtp vod server debug: we found a startcode for NAL with TYPE:8
stream_out_rtp vod server debug:   - added ES 96 H264 (h264)             
stream_out_rtp vod server debug:   - added ES 96 mpeg4-generic (mp4a)    
stream_out_rtp vod server debug: adding media 'Test'                     
stream_out_rtp vod server debug: RTSP stream at 0.0.0.0/Test             
main vod server debug: net: listening to * port 5554                     
stream_out_rtp vod server debug: RTSP: adding 0.0.0.0/Test/trackID=0     
stream_out_rtp vod server debug: RTSP: adding 0.0.0.0/Test/trackID=1

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$ nc localhost 4212
VLC media player 3.0.3 Vetinari
Password: videolan
Welcome, Master
> show
show
    media : ( 0 broadcast - 0 vod )
    schedule
> new test vod enabled
new
> setup test input "file:///home/yk/20180528.176947814.Vu.mp4"
setup
> setup test option file-caching=300
setup
> show
show
    media : ( 0 broadcast - 1 vod )
        test
            type : vod
            enabled : yes
            mux : (null)
            inputs
                1 : file:///home/yk/20180528.176947814.Vu.mp4
            output :
            options
                file-caching=300
            instances
    schedule

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$ vlc -vvv rtsp://127.0.0.1:5554/Test
[00007f9f300010f0] live555 demux debug: version 2018.02.18
Created new TCP socket 11 for connection
Connecting to 127.0.0.1, port 5554 on socket 11...
...remote connection opened
Sending request: OPTIONS rtsp://127.0.0.1:5554/Test RTSP/1.0
CSeq: 2
User-Agent: LibVLC/3.0.3 (LIVE555 Streaming Media v2018.02.18)
Received 124 new bytes of response data.
Received a complete OPTIONS response:
RTSP/1.0 200 OK
Server: VLC/3.0.3
Content-Length: 0
Cseq: 2
Public: DESCRIBE,SETUP,TEARDOWN,PLAY,PAUSE,GET_PARAMETER


Sending request: DESCRIBE rtsp://127.0.0.1:5554/Test RTSP/1.0
CSeq: 3
User-Agent: LibVLC/3.0.3 (LIVE555 Streaming Media v2018.02.18)
Accept: application/sdp


Received 75 new bytes of response data.
Have received 75 total bytes of a DESCRIBE RTSP response; awaiting 322 bytes more.
Received 322 new bytes of response data.
Received a complete DESCRIBE response:
RTSP/1.0 404 Client error
Content-Length: 322
Content-Type: text/html

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ascii" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml10/DTD/xhtml10strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Client error</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>404 Client error (/Test)</h1>
<hr />
<a href="http://www.videolan.org">VideoLAN</a>
</body>
</html>

[00007f9f300010f0] live555 demux debug: connection error 404
[00007f9f300010f0] live555 demux error: Failed to connect with rtsp://127.0.0.1:5554/Test

What gives?

Posted: **20 Jun 2018 21:38**

likely no mapping from /Test to resource.
use the correct uri

Posted: **21 Jun 2018 01:10**

What exactly do you mean? What would be the "correct" URI?
"rtsp://127.0.0.1:5554/home/yk/20180528.176947814.Vu.mp4" returns 404 also.

Posted: **21 Jun 2018 09:17**

So you're able to copy instructions from elsewhere but not even read to the end ?

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=16522

Posted: **21 Jun 2018 09:40**

I copied the instructions/command lines from the wiki: https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation ... _On_Demand
During my search, I also came upon the thread you just showed, but they are talking about HTTP; I'm trying to use RTSP, and the last messages say that only RTSP is supported. How does that help?
Could you please be more precise and tell me precisely what I'm doing wrong? I know you're trying to help, but sarcasm is not helping anyone.

Posted: **21 Jun 2018 18:13**

Then you should re-read the wiki, and fix by yourself.

hint: there's a typo, but you should REALLY TRY to understand what you're doing instead of blindly following instructions

Posted: **21 Jun 2018 19:54**

If you're talking about the "test" in the telnet commands instead of "Test", it's a typo in the forum post, not on my tests. I have tried with "test", "Test" and a lot of different other ones. I've been on this for days. So if you saw another typo, please get over yourself and point it out already. If not, we have wasted a day with your attitude.

Posted: **26 Jun 2018 00:34**

Would anyone else be able to weigh in on this issue?

Posted: **09 Sep 2018 02:19**

$ vlc --ttl 3 -vvv --color -I telnet --telnet-password videolan --rtsp-host 0.0.0.0 --rtsp-port 5554

--rtsp-host=<string> RTSP server address
This defines the address the RTSP server will listen on, along with
the base path of the RTSP VOD media. Syntax is address/path. By
default, the server will listen on any local IP address. Specify an
IP address (e.g. ::1 or 127.0.0.1) or a host name (e.g. localhost) to
restrict them to a specific network interface.

https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help/

try:

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vlc --ttl 3 -vvv --color -I telnet --telnet-password videolan --rtsp-port 5554

Posted: **09 Sep 2018 12:25**

Thanks Norbert, it works by removing the rtsp-host parameter.
From the documentation, I was expecting the server to listen to a local address by default, so I set 0.0.0.0 to be sure that it was listening on every interface.
Incidentally, whether I set 0.0.0.0 or not yields the same behaviour, i.e. vlc listening on 0.0.0.0:5554.
So I don't really understand why the server would answer 404 in one case but not the other. Sounds more like a bug to me.

Posted: **01 Apr 2020 23:04**

Thank you @Norbert & @ohm - that did the trick for me as well.

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