I tried to connect to my TC 70 cam by RTSP on my PC but failed. I followed all related instruction incl.:

 - Making a camera account (without special characters) in my mobile phone TAPO app

 - Reading the IP from the router

 - Entering 

         rtsp://<IP>:554/stream1 in VLC (as instructed on the TAPO homepage) 

         rstp://<usr-cam-account>:<pw-cam-account>@<IP>:554/stream1 in VLC as expected by me

... with following error message (translated to English): 

 

VLC cannot open the media address 'rtsp://<user>:<pw>i@192.168.123.160:554/stream1' . For details check the error protokoll.

 

The error protocoll in VLC is extremely irritating. Beside a lot of unrelated stuff I found for example:

...

main debug: net: connecting to 192.168.123.160 port 554

main debug: connection succeeded (socket = 37)

access_realrtsp warning: Cseq mismatch, got 1, assumed 0

access_realrtsp debug: rtsp connected

access_realrtsp warning: only real/helix rtsp servers supported for now

main debug: no access modules matched

main debug: dead input

main debug: changing item without a request (current 1/2)

main debug: nothing to play

qt debug: IM: Deleting the input

..

 

I used VLC 3.0.20 on Linux Mint 22. I am not a IT beginner and never had any issues with IP cams and VLC.

Any Idea what could help?

 

Best regards

Claus