From the log it looks like something about your networking is preventing your vlc client from talking to your camera. I assume you’re running this under linux and have access to a shell prompt? If so, does the camera respond if you do
ping -c 5 192.168.254.53
If yes, then try to use telnet to see if the port is open by doing
telnet 192.168.254.53 554
For my camera, the results look like this …
$ ping -c 5 192.168.1.152
PING 192.168.1.152 (192.168.1.152) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.152: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.62 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.152: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.52 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.152: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=1.51 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.152: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=3.35 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.152: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=2.33 ms
— 192.168.1.152 ping statistics —
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4006ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.517/2.068/3.354/0.712 ms
and
$ telnet 192.168.1.152 554
Trying 192.168.1.152…
Connected to 192.168.1.152.
Escape character is ‘^]’.
^]
telnet> q
Connection closed.
(After the telnet connects, you have to type ctrl and the ‘]’ key, and then ‘q’ and enter to get out of it.)