Saving an RTSP Stream.. troubleshooting
Posted: 11 Jan 2006 06:28
Hi all... I'm having some trouble saving a RTSP stream... Yes, i've read the docs, and i've tried most of what I know (which, admittedly is very little).
But I was wondering if someone smart here could help me ?
I can get the stream to PLAY in VLC (sometimes) but it just wont save it to a file, either with the streaming wizard, manually, or w/ the command line. I'm running Mac OS X, VLC 0.8.4.
As it happens, I'm actually trying to save today's MWSF keynote.. but I'm worried that i'll have this same problem in the future w/ other things. The URL for anyone interested is rtsp://a2047.v1412b.c1412.g.vq.akamaistream.net/5/2047/1412/1_h264_350/1a1a1ae555c531960166df4dbc3095c327960d7be756b71b49aa1576e344addb3ead1a497aaedf11/mw_2006_1_350.mov
What I've tried:
•Using the VLC Streaming wizard... I'm confused as to what i should be setting the output encapsulation method to (does it only affect the output stream and not the interpretation of the input stream?). I've tried all of them to no avail.
What happens: Sometimes nothing, sometimes audio only plays, but never video, and the file is always empty (or ~16 bytes).
•Making sure the stream plays (i.e. I see video and hear sound), then using the VLC wizard to select it from the "playlist" option. Tried varying the muxer settings as above (again, not sure what i'm doing here, if someone could explain, that'd be nice, too). No luck.
•A bad attempt at using the command line, but I was quickly confused by all the options... I tried ./VLC stream address --sout file/ts:test.mov . I got a empty file again.
I'm willing to post debug output if people think that would help. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks so much in advance,
Cyberfunk[/i]
But I was wondering if someone smart here could help me ?
I can get the stream to PLAY in VLC (sometimes) but it just wont save it to a file, either with the streaming wizard, manually, or w/ the command line. I'm running Mac OS X, VLC 0.8.4.
As it happens, I'm actually trying to save today's MWSF keynote.. but I'm worried that i'll have this same problem in the future w/ other things. The URL for anyone interested is rtsp://a2047.v1412b.c1412.g.vq.akamaistream.net/5/2047/1412/1_h264_350/1a1a1ae555c531960166df4dbc3095c327960d7be756b71b49aa1576e344addb3ead1a497aaedf11/mw_2006_1_350.mov
What I've tried:
•Using the VLC Streaming wizard... I'm confused as to what i should be setting the output encapsulation method to (does it only affect the output stream and not the interpretation of the input stream?). I've tried all of them to no avail.
What happens: Sometimes nothing, sometimes audio only plays, but never video, and the file is always empty (or ~16 bytes).
•Making sure the stream plays (i.e. I see video and hear sound), then using the VLC wizard to select it from the "playlist" option. Tried varying the muxer settings as above (again, not sure what i'm doing here, if someone could explain, that'd be nice, too). No luck.
•A bad attempt at using the command line, but I was quickly confused by all the options... I tried ./VLC stream address --sout file/ts:test.mov . I got a empty file again.
I'm willing to post debug output if people think that would help. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks so much in advance,
Cyberfunk[/i]