White noise and no video on Channel Zero RSTP stream on Hikvision NVR

[heinburgh]

Hello forum,

I have a DS-7616NXI-I2/16P/S NVR and I'm attempting to display channel zero on a TV screen through a Raspberry Pi. I have the Pi working great, using a RSTP stream from any of the individual cameras in our system, but having a hard time getting the channel zero stream to work. I use VLC to test the different streams and the best I've been able to get for channel zero is constant white noise, with no video. Again, any of the individual camera streams work just fine. When viewing channel zero from the NVR live view it displays correctly with all the cameras I selected for it.

The URL I use: rtsp:/admin:pass@192.168.0.144:554/Streaming/Channels/101 for main and rtsp:/admin:pass@192.168.0.144:554/Streaming/Channels/102 for sub stream.

Firmware version: V5.03.020 Build 240904

Attached screenshot is the RTSP settings on the NVR, I tried all other options with no luck. Am I missing something on the URL? Other settings I'm not aware of?

 

[TonyR]

Try this: Of course, put 2 "/" after "rtsp:", as forum software will not show 2 consecutively:

rtsp:/admin:pass@192.168.0.144:554/Streaming/Channels/001

 

[heinburgh]

Try this: Of course, put 2 "/" after "rtsp:", as forum software will not show 2 consecutively:

rtsp:/admin:pass@192.168.0.144:554/Streaming/Channels/001

Many thanks @TonyR - I tried 001 and every other possibility mentioned in many other threads - 1, 2, 0. 001. 100, 101, 102, etc. The only one that gets any response (white noise) is 101, all the others gets no response whatsoever
on VLC.

 

[heinburgh]

Ok, your URL is correct. I ran VLC from the RPI in verbose mode and I can confirm that 101 as I used it before returns error 404 from the NVR, even though it gives white noise with some appearance of streaming happening from the windows GUI VLC version.

Try this: Of course, put 2 "/" after "rtsp:", as forum software will not show 2 consecutively:

rtsp:/admin:pass@192.168.0.144:554/Streaming/Channels/001

I ran VLC from my raspberry pi and compared the console logs between a feed that works directly from one of my cameras, and the feed coming from the NVR. Seems like there is an issue with the format coming from the NVR that VLC cannot handle, specifically "h264 warning: waiting for SPS/PPS". Attached is the logs from the Windows VLC GUI. Has anyone ever come across a Hikvision NVR rstp feed not being formatted correctly?