<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">I am trying the have a stream give periodic output files every minute as <i class="">avi files</i> and I am getting the error that it fails to get a SDP description for the URL and that the -iP command cannot be found. I have also tried these commands by themselves and it fails to get the SDP description also.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The command I input is:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><i style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class=""><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">openRTSP rtsp://</span><a href="http://24.196.72.222:1080/user=jaderoyston&password=blacky12&channel=1&stream=0.sdp" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">24.196.72.222:1080/user=guest&password=guest&channel=1&stream=0.sdp</a><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px" class="">? -iP 60 > ~/record/output.avi</span></i><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>First, options on the command line must be separated. So you need to say</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-i -P 60</div><div>rather than</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-iP 60</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Second, if you use the "-P <interval-in-seconds>” option in combination with “-i” (or “-4” or “-q”), then the output will be written to separate files, but *not* to stdout, so you don’t need to add “> ~/record/output.avi” to the end of the command line.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Finally, because the RTSP URL contains ‘&’ and ‘?’ characters, it’s possible - depending on your command shell - that you will need to put quotation marks around the URL.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The following command should work:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>openRTSP 'rtsp://24.196.72.222:1080/user=guest&password=guest&channel=1&stream=0.sdp?' -i P 60</div><div><br class=""></div><div>If you find that the output files are empty, then it’s probably because there’s a firewall somewhere - between your server (camera) and client (“openRTSP”) - that’s blocking UDP packets. In that case, try adding the “-t” option to the command line.</div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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