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Posted: **01 Feb 2025 20:32**

Hello,

I'm creating an M3U8 file containing RTSP streams of my IP cameras. Their accesses are restricted with credentials. I can successfully access them using VLC manually, opening a network stream (a popup asks for my username and password, and then I can see my live video). The problem is when I open an M3U8 file that has the stream and the credentials. VLC still asks for the password. This is my M3U8 file:

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#EXTM3U
#EXTVLCOPT:network-caching=1000
#EXTVLCOPT:rtsp-user=myusernamegoeshere
#EXTVLCOPT:rtsp-pwd=mypasswordgoeshere
rtsp://192.168.1.10:554

I tried changing the stream URL to

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rtsp://myusernamegoeshere:mypasswordgoeshere@192.168.1.10:554

and also to

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http://myusernamegoeshere:mypasswordgoeshere@192.168.1.10:554

...to no avail... Do you know how to store the password in my M3U8 file so that VLC doesn't keep asking for it?

Thank you.

Posted: **05 Feb 2025 14:09**

Does anyone know?

Posted: **19 Feb 2025 08:11**

Interestingly enough, I also currently have problems when trying to connect to an RTSP stream and providing the username and password in the URL.
When I try to connect to the stream using "rtsp://myusernamegoeshere:mypasswordgoeshere@192.168.1.10" for example, in the debug output I get the info that "live555 error: Failed to connect with rtsp://myusernamegoeshere:554" and then "access_realrtsp error: cannot connect to myusernamegoeshere:0".

In the Log I can clearly see that VLC Player tries to connect to the wrong host. Maybe this problem is related to yours?

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