Viewing Streamed Video from Pelco Spectra IV IP Camera

[jmspann]

Hello All,
I am trying to view a stream to my VLC from a Pelco Spectra IV IP camera. I wrote an application that will request the stream to my IP:Port on my PC. Using VLC 1.1.5, I then setup VLC. Media->Open Stream. I enter rtp://172.26.140.131:9010 for the URL and then hit play. I then run my application to request the stream. Using Wireshark, I am able to verify that the request to the camera is successful. (I see alternating udp packets then ICMP destination port unreachable) When I click play in VLC, my udp packets begin showing constant in wireshark without the ICMP destination port unreachable message) However, no video is ever shown in the viewer. What am I missing?

Here is the output from my messages; verbosity=2

main debug: processing request item Streaming node Playlist skip 0
main debug: resyncing on Streaming
main debug: Streaming is at 6
main debug: starting new item
main debug: creating new input thread
main debug: Creating an input for 'Streaming'
main debug: thread (input) created at priority 1 (../.././src/input/input.c:214)
main debug: thread started
main debug: reusing sout
main debug: you probably want to use gather stream_out
main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MiB
main debug: using timeshift path 'C:\DOCUME~1\jspann\LOCALS~1\Temp'
main debug: `rtp://172.26.140.131:9010' gives access `rtp' demux `' path `172.26.140.131:9010'
main debug: creating demux: access='rtp' demux='' path='172.26.140.131:9010'
main debug: looking for access_demux module: 1 candidate
main debug: net: opening 172.26.140.131 datagram port 9010
main debug: using access_demux module "rtp"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 0.380 ms - Total 0.380 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 0.380 ms)
main debug: starting in async mode
main debug: looking for meta reader module: 2 candidates
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Documents and Settings\jspann\Application Data\vlc\lua\meta\reader
lua debug: Trying Lua scripts in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\reader
lua debug: Trying Lua playlist script C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\meta\reader\filename.lua
main debug: no meta reader module matching "any" could be loaded
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 1.249 ms - Total 1.249 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 1.249 ms)
main debug: `rtp://172.26.140.131:9010' successfully opened
qt4 debug: IM: Setting an input


Thanks in advance.

[hussam_2000]

did you find a solution to your problem ? I bought the same camera and I'm trying to do the same thing. i have not started anything yet but what do you recommend ? i developed apps with VLC before so I'm familiar with it . How did you configure the Camera to send UDP packets ? thank you

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Are you sure that the camera is using a static RTP payload format? You can't use rtp://... with dynamic ones (which are the most common these days).

[hussam_2000]

the settings on the Camera are weird. I don't see RTP enable/disable like the other H.264 encoders I bought before. The company uses QuickTime to video embedded inside the browser. I was trapping the packets with wireshark and it had a SSDP protocol. Under network setting , I can enable SSNP streaming so would VLC open this and what would be the URL for that. Thank you

[hussam_2000]

Also did u use rtsp requests to start playing the video ?