Hi All, There has been some discussion on the forum how to use FFmpeg to convert the RSTP IP Camera feed to MP4. Recently, I tried doing the same with my Reolink cameras and I used the same command that has worked fine with my previous IP camera: ffmpeg -i rtsp://xxx:xxx@192.168.1.57:554/h264Prev…

I just realized you might need to force tcp connection. In your command, try adding -rtsp_transport tcp before the -i

Can you include the full ffmpeg command? What version of ffmpeg? Is the green when outputting jpegs or streaming mp4? If you are playing the mp4 content and the screen is partially green, just accept it because it is an overpriced cam that does the same thing to me most of the time. I hate to publi…

Hi Kevin, The full command is this: ffmpeg -i rtsp://xxx:xxx@192.168.1.57:554/h264Preview_01_main -r 10 -t 60 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -y My ffmpeg says the following: ffmpeg version 2.6.9 Copyright (c) 2000-2016 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-10+deb8u1) configurat…

[image] nygma2004: The full command is this: ffmpeg -i rtsp://xxx:xxx@192.168.1.57:554/h264Preview_01_main -r 10 -t 60 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -y Still seems like part of that command is cut off. Where is the output params? Are you writing to file?

[image] kevinGodell: [image] nygma2004: The full command is this: ffmpeg -i rtsp://xxx:xxx@192.168.1.57:554/h264Preview_01_main -r 10 -t 60 -vcodec copy -acodec copy -y Still seems like part of that command is cut off. Where is the output params? Are you writing to file? Oh sorry, yes…

I think I understand now. Do you constantly re-connect to the cam since the ffmpeg process only runs for 60 seconds and terminated? That particular ip cam craps out if it gets constant new connections. Atleast mine does.

[image] kevinGodell: but my super cheap generic chinese $20 ip cams perform way better than the $50 reolink that I got from amazn Hi @kevinGodell , sorry for the off topic comment but would you be kind enough to throw a link or two to these cheap cameras you speak of. Cheers. (might be useful …

When I get to my computer, I will log into AliExpress and see if any of my previous retailers still exist there.

Unfortunately, the specific items I purchased 3 years ago are no longer listed. The good news is that similar products are even cheaper now. I paid about 26 usd at the time, and they are now about 20. The cams that worked best for me all seemed to built upon the same internal components and firmw…

[image] kevinGodell: I think I understand now. Do you constantly re-connect to the cam since the ffmpeg process only runs for 60 seconds and terminated? That particular ip cam craps out if it gets constant new connections. Atleast mine does. No this was one time only. I was just using this fl…

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krambriw 14 September 2020 17:26 5

I had to build ffmpeg on my RaspberryPi 3B, it took a while but it works now very well. All this is discussed in this topic, maybe helps. Also seems you have installed and use a very old version of ffmpeg

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Use FFmpeg to convert RSTP stream to MP4

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