[FFmpeg-user] Stop ffmpeg setting up all RTSP streams
Spockter
spockter at gmail.com
Fri May 30 11:40:55 CEST 2014
I am attempting to read video from a webcam that supports RTSP. FFmpeg fails
to read the video and reports the error:
method SETUP failed: 503 Service Unavailable
The webcam supports 5 streams according to the RTSP DESCRIBE command response
and when FFmpeg starts it attempts SETUP on each of the 5 streams.
Unfortunately, the SETUP command fails on the 3rd stream with the above 503
error. This is clearly a bug with the camera software, but it stops FFmpeg
using any of the available streams.
I only need the first and second streams (video + audio). Ideally, I would
like FFmpeg to only setup and use those streams thus avoiding the failure with
the 3rd stream. Is there a way to control which streams it attempts SETUP on?
Alternatively, is there a way to force FFmpeg to ignore any streams that fail
to be setup?
FYI, VLC is able to play the content from the webcam. I can see from a packet
capture that it also attempts SETUP on all 5 streams and it too gets the 503
error for stream 3 (as well as for streams 4 and 5). However, it ignores those
errors and continues with the working streams 1 and 2.
Thanks for any help you can give.
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