Question / Help OBS stream freezes but camera is still broadcasting

[scorpion136]

This is my first attempt at streaming with OBS. I love it and it works well... most of the time.

I'm streaming a live video of a bird nest (Mourning Dove) outside my window, to my YouTube channel "quartetmember".

Camera is D-Link DCS-936L with connect string rtsp://<userid>:<password>@192.168.1.4:554/play1.sdp

However, several times a day the OBS screen shows a frozen picture.

Yet on the D-Link web interface window the camera is active and broadcasting on my home network and I can see the birds moving in the web window at mydlink.com. So the camera's wireless link is active.

Stopping and starting the stream in OBS has no effect. Cancelling and restarting OBS lets it connect again to the camera and the YouTube stream comes alive.

Any suggestions welcome. Here is the current log. It shows no errors, it just seems to be sitting there thinking it is connected to the camera and streaming when it is not.

Thanks!

https://hastebin.com/biriyogeze

 

[k.kong]

I am having a similar issue. I have OBS Studio on a Windows 10 laptop, and using a Video Capture source using the integrated webcam. This worked fine and I could broadcast live to YouTube. I then used a D-Link DCS5222L camera with a rtsp url similar to yours. It worked for a few minutes. Then the source froze, and the OBS software also froze, or became non-responsive.

I then installed OBS Studio on a Ubuntu laptop. Again, using rtsp to that same camera also froze the OBS app on Ubuntu. I deliberately changed the rtsp url to a non-existing IP address, but the software was still non-responsive.

Now, the rtsp url stopped showing a video on OBS.

I wonder whether the problem is with the camera or the OBS software or both.

 

[Narcogen]

OBS is not a particularly reliable RTSP client; it seems to tend to not reconnect after disconnections, which are common.

I would suggest using VLC or another intermediate client and then capturing that in OBS.