I want to get the camera video stream and broadcast it with RTSP on Windows.
I can play the camera video with
> ffplay -f dshow -i "HP HD Webcam"
But if I try start the stream with
> ffmpeg -f rtsp -i video="HP HD Webcam" rtsp://localhost:8888/live.sdp
The stream does not start. The console shows
ffmpeg version ...
configuration: ...
libavutil 55. 6.100 / 55. 6.100
libavcodec 57. 15.100 / 57. 15.100
libavformat 57. 14.100 / 57. 14.100
libavdevice 57. 0.100 / 57. 0.100
libavfilter 6. 15.100 / 6. 15.100
libswscale 4. 0.100 / 4. 0.100
libswresample 2. 0.101 / 2. 0.101
libpostproc 54. 0.100 / 54. 0.100
And if I use ctrl+c to break it, an error shows
video=HP HD Webcam: Immediate exit requested
How can I properly stream the camera to RTSP with ffmpeg?
ffmpeg doesn't substitute a RTSP server, the rtsp is just a muxer/demuxer. When you use it for output it sends the stream with a RTSP ANNOUNCE. So you need a server which supports it running on 8888. The documentation mentions Darwin Streaming Server and revmischa/rtsp-server.