Connecting to a rtsp source not working

[steveww]

I am having much difficulty connecting to a RTSP source. From some debug I found that zone minder puts trackID=0 at the end of the request. I have fixed that at the RTSP server and I can view the feed via VLC on my desktop e.g. rtsp://myhost:8554/trackID=0

Alas zone minder refuses to see it. I have enabled debug but this is not really telling me what it is up to. The process is short lived and exits with 255.

Any ideas?

[steveww]

Just run tcpdump to see what is happening on the network and zone minder is not causing any network activity. Surely I would see some traffic across on the port 8554?

[steveww]

Tried switch over to HTTP instead. Now I see network activity. Once again VLC on my desktop works perfectly but zone minder does not like the content type in the response "application/octetstream"

[knight-of-ni]

We need to know the following before anyone can help you:
- Contents of your zoneminder log file, from the moment it is started up until errors occur. Do NOT try to open the live monitor during this test
- General and Source tabs of the monitor in question. Screenshots are preferred.
- make & model of the camera in question

We need to see the unedited log. Leave interpretation of the data up to us.