Cam Pan V3 RTSP vs Blue Iris

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Thank you for sharing that screenshot. It doesn’t tell me a lot, but it’s similar to what I’m seeing now on one machine. What do you find in the log when you check that?

Based on what I’m experiencing, I suspect that your problem might be with VLC or something else on your PC. I’m having issues with it now (unable to stream RTSP from either my test Cam Pan v3 or a test Tapo C120) on Trisquel/MATE, which installs VLC 3.0.16, but it’s working as expected (for both cameras) on Ubuntu/GNOME with VLC 3.0.20 and on Windows with VLC 3.0.23. I don’t know why it’s hosed right now in my Trisquel environment. I swear that was working recently when I installed ZoneMinder just to see if I could get that to work.[1] I’m not familiar with VLC’s log, but I’ll try checking that to see if it tells me anything.

Other thoughts/questions (in addition to the question about the VLC log above):

  • What version of VLC are you using?
  • What other troubleshooting have you done?
  • Do you have other RTSP-enabled cameras that you’re able to stream in VLC and/or Blue Iris?
  • Can you see the RTSP stream with FFplay? (In my Trisquel environment, I’m able to stream both cameras with FFplay even though VLC chokes on both.)
  • As @dave27 mentioned, you can telnet 192.168.1.131 554, and if the standard RTSP port is open and responding properly at that IP address, then you should see something like this:
    $ telnet 192.168.1.131 554
Trying 192.168.1.131...
Connected to 192.168.1.131.
Escape character is '^]'.
  • You can also use something like Nmap, and a command like nmap -p 322,554 192.168.1.131 should return something like this in the results:
    PORT    STATE SERVICE
322/tcp open  rtsps
554/tcp open  rtsp
    Something like that can give you more detail about your situation, but using telnet is probably a simpler test if you already have that on your system (and the last time I had to install it on Windows, that was fairly straightforward).

If you’re confident about the username, password, and IP address that you’ve given your Cam, then I’d try telnet (and/or nmap) plus ffplay in your troubleshooting if you haven’t already done that. Note that if you use FFplay for RTSP (instead of RTSPS), then you’ll want to make adjustments to your command line arguments that differ from what’s in the RTSP Testing Instructions. Discussion at RTSP BETA RELEASE FOR v3 and Pan v3! - #432 by Crease and some preceding posts might be helpful if you choose to try that.

Edit @ 2026-03-12T22:44:09Z

Added another question above that I meant to ask earlier.

Edit @ 2026-03-13T17:15:15Z

Corrected a memory error above.

  1. I believe that I misremembered this earlier. In order to get ZoneMinder working, I was testing successfully with FFplay and not VLC on that machine. ↩︎