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Hello,
I hope I can find help on this matter.
I have follow a guideline to stream Tapo Camera with RTSP within VLC:

1/I have defined ID/Password in Tapo
2/ Open 554 port in router and define static IP adresss for the camera
3/ try open a stream network in VLC with syntax: rtsp:// IPadress:554/stream1

well it asked me the ID and Password and start streaming BUT just for 2 seconds, then it freeze. and is never able to display more after that.
what other setting am i supposed to do?

Thank to all of U.

It could be a couple of things.
1. You've configured the firewall to permit UDP from the camera -> your application but not from your application -> the camera. Some RTP stacks require RTCP data be sent back from the receiver to the camera to validate connectivity. VLC sends an empty RTCP response. Not ideal, but it generally works.
2. There's a misconfigured router or VPN along the path between the camera and your application and it's dropping large packets.

If you use wireshark (windows) or tcpdump (linux) to view what's going on in the network, you'll be able to see what's going on in the network.

Hello dzoe,
thanks for your reply but i dont undertand it all. Sorry.

Well i am still pretty much at the same point , just a little bit further.
I have noticed in the Tapo application on my mobile, this app only have a mobile app, that if i change the password and ID, I wait a little bit, then I try in VLC with the RTSP string, it will work
and I can stay for hours with a live stream.
If I close VLC and try again with the same string I get error message saying it cant open .

Any idea ?