TL;DR: Try ffplay. The standard player in the FFMPEG package. We have had the same problem with monitoring surveillance steam of sub- par cameras. After waiting for about a year I am trying it again, right now, using the latest snap version. At this very moment of typing, I am looking at two different windows. One is a stream displayed in vlc, the other in ffplay. Same source, which still is a crappy stream of a crappy camera.
For those of you interested: I started the stream without any special voodoo. Just "vlc 'rtsp://URL'" repectively "ffplay rtsp://URL". Result: The VLC window is frozen almost permanently. It updates between every 15 seconds and once every other minute. ffplay produces a constantly moving picture. It's not great, bco of the low quality of the crappy stream, but I can see what happens in front of the camera. So, what am I supposed to think now? Is FFMPEG the superior product for my use case? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/790216 Title: Make vlc more resilent with unreliable streaming content To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/vlc/+bug/790216/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
