Giuseppe De Marco, demarcog83 at gmail.com

forked from
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/live555/1.0
Mike McCandless, mikemccand at gmail.com

This contains a small Python3 wrapper around the Live555 Streaming Media APIs, so that you can load video frames. It only wraps a tiny, tiny subset of all of Live555's APIs, specifically the APIs necessary to pull frames via RTSP/RTP from an IP camera.

Mike McCandless tested on Linux with the surprisingly excellent Lorex LNB2151/LNB2153 cameras, with H264 video.
I'm only tested with ipcam Maygion h264, not so surprising as camera but works.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. First install the Live555 library from Debian repository
   aptitude install livemedia-utils liblivemedia-dev python3 python3-dev python3-pip

2. Download/clone this repo

3. then
   python3 setup.py build python3 setup.py install

4. Run the example (some costants should be configured in example.py)
   python3 example.py 10.17.4.118 1 10 out.264

   That will record 10 seconds of H264 video from the camera at
   10.17.4.118, channel 1, saving it to the file out.264.

This forge two files: video-H264-1 and audio-PCMU-2
openRTSP rtsp://admin:[email protected]:80

Then convert it in a viewable format
...only video
ffmpeg -i video-H264-1 -acodec copy -vcodec copy -map 0:0 merged.mp4

... or video and audio
ffmpeg -i video-H264-1 -i audio-PCMU-2 -acodec copy -vcodec copy -map 0:0 -map 1:0 merged.mp4

vlc -I dummy rtsp://admin:[email protected]:80 --sout=file/ts:mystream.mpg