Opening RTSP Stream using VLC/GStreamer/FFmpeg

How to read RTSP audio/video data using various tools

November 14, 2021 · 1 min · Dave

Opening RTSL URL using VLC Player

Download Video Lan VLC Player from https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Click Media -> Open Network Stream
In the URL field enter one of the two currently available RTSP Stream URLs - rtsp://rtsp.stream/pattern or rtsp://rtsp.stream/movie
Click Play

Opening RTSL URL using GStreamer

Install GStreamer for your Operating System using these Installation Instructions

Use the below pipeline

gst-launch-1.0 rtspsrc location=rtsp://rtsp.stream/movie latency=100 ! queue ! rtph264depay ! h264parse ! avdec_h264 ! videoconvert ! videoscale ! video/x-raw,width=640,height=480 ! autovideosink

Opening RTSL URL using FFmpeg

Install FFmpeg for your OS. For Debian based systems you can use
```
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
```
Then we can use the bundled ffplay utility to read the RTSP Stream
```
ffplay rtsp://rtsp.stream/movie
```