#Vlc connect to ffmpeg rtsp software#

Vlc.exe -I dummy –dummy-quiet -vvv –loop “” –sout=”#transcode” –sout-keep –sout-allģ. Launch VLC streaming with the following command, Launch a command prompt and navigate to the VLC installed folder.Ģ. Select Media | Open Network Stream… and specify the RTSP URL.ġ. You may launch another instance of VLC player to verify the RTSP streaming. If you need to simulate a continuous video stream, enable repeat/loop.ġ1. Click “Stream” to start the RTSP streaming. In the Option Setup step, enable “Stream all elementary streams”.ġ0. Back at the Stream Output dialog window, click “Next”. Similarly the Subtitles track should be disabled. In the Audio Codec tab, uncheck “Audio” to disable streaming the audio track. The latter will disable transcoding and require significantly lesser CPU resources.Ĩ.

In the Video Codec tab, select the “Video” and “Keep original video track”. In the Encapsulation tab, accept the default MP4/MOV selection. Select the “Video – H.264 + MP3 (MP4)” profile and click the edit button.ħ. With the default settings, the RTSP URL will be “rtsp://localhost:8554/”. To avoid the need for transcoding (which consumes more CPU), try to select video clips encoded in H.264. Select “RTSP” from the dropdown list and click “Add” to select a video file.

#Vlc connect to ffmpeg rtsp software#

One of those software utilities is VLC this post describes the steps for VLC running on Windows. Sometimes it can be a hassle to set up a real IP camera just to test video streaming to NVRs and VMSs, so emulating an IP camera using off-the-shelf software comes in handy in those situations. Almost all IP surveillance cameras are capable of streaming in RTSP nowadays, and video surveillance recording endpoints (NVRs and Video Management Systems) invariably accept the RTSP streaming format as well.