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Alright. So vlc on windows prompts the user for credentials, and works. Arch with Gui fails, Rocky with no gui (cvlc) fails, ubuntu with cvlc fails. Turns out LOTS of people find that VLC 3.0.21 can't handle rtsp auth properly; so VLC wasn't an appropriate "test suite", and was a red herring for ...

Packet capture shows that the zoneminder server never makes an outbound connection to the remote camera. my use of VLC or telnet to 554 is shown by 'tcpdump host xxx.yyy.zzz.www' but ZoneMinder happily throws permission denied errors without sending any bytes over the network. What permission is ...

Well I upgraded the firmware in the camera in hope - and now VLC can't load the stream either. Ah well, thanks anyway guys, but I can't get this thing to talk RTSP to me at all any more. I tried: - a new username - changing to "basic" from digest auth - A different password And I did notice - and ...

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Does ZM offer any way to debug this, or do I need to fall back to externnal tools like tcpdump?

Hi all! On the CLI, this works perfectly: ffplay rtsp://admin:password@192.168.15.100:554/Streaming/channels/101 In the "Source Path" field I have this: rtsp://admin:password@192.168.15.100:554/Streaming/channels/101 However, the log says this: Unable to open input rtsp://192.168.15.100/Streaming ...