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CB-640x Installation and User Guide Revision 100
February 2021
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4.3.1 Viewing Live Video using a Media Player
The main live video stream and sub-stream can be viewed with a media player such as VLC (download
from
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html
). Streams can be viewed for the three channels and three
video encoding formats (H.264, H265, and MJPEG).
To view a media stream with VLC
Open VLC.
From the
Media
tab, select
Open Network Stream
. The
Open Media
screen is displayed.
Figure 30: VLC Open Media Screen
On the
Network
tab, enter the network URL for the stream. The URL syntax is:
rtsp://(camera IP address)/(stream name).
Stream
Stream name
Example URL
Unicast stream 1
stream1
rtsp://192.168.0.250/stream1
Multicast stream 1 stream1m
rtsp://192.168.0.250/stream1m
Unicast stream 2
stream2
rtsp://192.168.0.250/stream2
Multicast stream 2 stream2m
rtsp://192.168.0.250/stream2m
Unicast stream 3
stream3
rtsp://192.168.0.250/stream3
Multicast stream 3 stream3m
rtsp://192.168.0.250/stream3m
If the URL does not specify a port, the media player attempts to open the stream using the default
RTSP port, 554. Although not recommended if the camera is attached to a VMS, it is possible to
configure a different RTSP port on the
. If the camera’s configured RTSP port is different
than 554, then the syntax for entering the URL in the media player is:
rtsp://(camera IP address):(port)/(stream)
For example, rtsp://192.168.0.250:1025/stream1.
