List RTSP streams of network camera

Question

I have just puchased a Micronet SP5319 HD IP camera and there is no info in the documentation regarding the path of the streams. I only found something like rtsp://ip/mpeg4 but in the end it does not work. I have tried many different paths with many different clients such as VLC and QuickTime. No success.

I wiresharked the stream and it look like:

OPTIONS rtsp://192.168.1.90:554/h264 RTSP/1.0
CSeq: 2
User-Agent: LibVLC/2.0.4 (LIVE555 Streaming Media v2012.09.13)

RTSP/1.0 200 OK
CSeq: 2
Date: Tue, Dec 04 2012 01:12:36 GMT
Public: OPTIONS, DESCRIBE, SETUP, TEARDOWN, PLAY, PAUSE, GET_PARAMETER, SET_PARAMETER

DESCRIBE rtsp://192.168.1.90:554/h264 RTSP/1.0
CSeq: 3
User-Agent: LibVLC/2.0.4 (LIVE555 Streaming Media v2012.09.13)
Accept: application/sdp

RTSP/1.0 404 Stream Not Found
CSeq: 3
Date: Tue, Dec 04 2012 01:12:36 GMT

Look at the last response: Stream Not Found. Finally, how can I get a list of available streams? Which software should I use? I have also tried with ONVIF without success.

Best regards,

Inquire Micronet about device caps (reference, API, SDK etc), there is no RTSP command to enumerate resources on a device. — Roman R.

Rodrigo Laguna Rodrigo Laguna · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-07T19:47:50

Had same issue, after reading tons of blogs, I find some interesting resources:

1) Here there is a huge list of rstp known URLs for certain brands. Unfortunately, mine wasn't there (the brand is kolke, if you wonder...)

2)This table shows different URLs for other cameras models. I tried several of them, without success. It was time consuming to do it with VLC, since I had to write one by one, so I wrote a small python script to test each of them with opencv and run it on a jupyter notebook:

import cv2

# need to know those before hand. I got IP with Nmap
usr = 'myuser'
pwd = 'mypassword'
ip = '192.168.1.1'

# I took the url patterns and also included some variations, just to be sure...
urls = [f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/cam/realmonitor?channel=1&subtype=0',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/live=2.2&username={usr}&password={pwd}',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/1',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/stream1',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/Stream1',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=0.sdp?',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=0.sdp',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/videostream.asf?user={usr}&pwd={pwd}',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/ucast/11',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/11',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/12',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/live0.264',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/mpeg4cif',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=0.sdp?',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=0.sdp',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/live1.264',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/cam1/h264',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/mpeg4cif',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/ucast/11',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/ROH/channel/11',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}_password={pwd}_channel=1_stream=0.sdp',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=0.sdp?',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}_password={pwd}_channel=1_stream=0.sdp',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}_password={pwd}_channel=1_stream=0.sdp?',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/cam1/mpeg4?user={usr}&pwd={pwd}',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/h264_stream',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/live/ch0',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/live/ch1',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=0.sdp?',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=1.sdp?',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=0&stream=1.sdp?',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=0&stream=0.sdp?',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=0.sdp',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=1&stream=1.sdp',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=0&stream=1.sdp',
        f'rtsp://{ip}:554/user={usr}&password={pwd}&channel=0&stream=0.sdp',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/ucast/11',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/11',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/12',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/live0.264',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/mpeg4cif',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/live1.264',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/cam1/h264',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/mpeg4cif',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/ucast/11',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/ROH/channel/11',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/h264_stream',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/live/ch0',
        f'rtsp://{usr}:{pwd}@{ip}:554/live/ch1',
       ]

def test_url(url):
    # try to open the stream
    cap = cv2.VideoCapture(url)
    ret = cap.isOpened()  # if it was succesfully opened, that's the URL you need
    cap.release()
    return ret

# then you just need to check those URLs
for url in urls:
    if test_url(url):
        print(url)

And then I got what I've been looking for:

rtsp://192.168.1.1:554/user=myuser&password=mypassword&channel=1&stream=0.sdp?

Hope it helps!

List RTSP streams of network camera

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