Revision [5495]
This is an old revision of StreamCCTVRaspberryPi made by ZorrUno on 2020-05-10 00:54:15.
Use a 7 inch car monitor to display Streamed CCTV image
Using an old Raspberry Pi (V1), and composite video output
Installed Raspbian full desktop, but start without x running (set using raspi-config)
Appended this to /home/pi/.profile
(so it will start up when the pi user logs in... which is on startup now)
insert-source-code-here
cvlc -f --aspect-ratio=16:9 "rtsp://192.168.1.123:554/user=blah&password=blah&channel=1&stream=1.sdp?Real_stream"
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The IP address is the camera, and port of the RTSP stream. Use the camera username and pass. Most cameras have differing strings for an RTSP URL so you need to check in your camera manual.
I had issues with larger streams, in that the stream would eventually drop out never to return. A camera stream in CIF with a decent number of i-frames seemed to work. Even a D1 stream seems to be too much. The monitor I'm using is only 800x480 however, so this is fine as a visual display, and the cameras I use are 4MPix with a substream.