How to use a RTMP stream in Motion

Question

Hi, i use Motion a few years with a couple of camera's. I run it on my Raspberry Pi. Now i bought a new camera (Vanxse V-B810 / Onvif) i cannot connect this camera with Motion. I tried various approaches without luck. I can connect the cam from a browser on RTMP (rtmp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8002/720p.264) or HTTP (http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8002/cgi-bin/view.cgi) also can get snapshots (url/snapshot.jpg)

Connection by Motion's config file are unsuccesful. Looked at the patches i cannot find a patch that could help.

I tryed to restream with VLC, i was not succesfull, think it has to do with my inexperience. Also tried FFMPEG and crtmpserver.

Last thing i tryed is dump the HTTP stream to single JPG files using avconv. That works, i can connect to those JPG file's but i cannot get avconv update a single JPG file, it creates series of files. The manual says i have to use the -update option. (avconv -i http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8002/cgi-bin/view.cgi -f image2 -update 1 /var/www/snapshot.jpg) Updating a single image does not work, avconv says he cannot set the option '1'.

Is there another way to connect Motion or am i on the right track ?

thanks

Richard

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Environment

Motion version:	3.2.12
ffmpeg version:	0.8.10-6:0.8.10-1+rpi1
Libraries:	ffmpeg
Server OS:	"Raspbian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy) 3.10.25+

-- RichardTePas - 11 May 2014

Answer

You probably mean RTSP? RTSP is supoprted in the lasted development build. Try to get fresh sources and recompile

-- TosiaraT - 26 Sep 2014