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UNABLE TO OPEN VIDEO DEVICE

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#2,068 opened on Mar 18, 2021

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Hi, I have a problem that I cannot solve on my raspberry pi3+ I entered my IPCamera with the rtsp stream which was regularly recognized by motioneye as rtsp camera. The video stream works perfectly with VLC while with motioneye only a gray screen appears saying "unable to open video device" I installed motioneye version 0.42.1 and motion 4.3.2 with os version Raspbian 10. What I read in the log in motion.log is: [1: ml1: Camera1] [ERR] [NET] netcam_rtsp_open_context: unable to open the camera (Camera1): Invalid data found when processing input [1: ml1: Camera2] [ERR] [VID] vid_start: Unable to open Netcam RTSP In VLC the video stream works perfectly. Please help me. Thank you

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Inspect the RTSP URL format and test with ffmpeg/ffplay. Verify motion configuration, particularly netcam path, and check for codec or authentication issues.
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python
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backend
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LinuxRTSP
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