RTSP camera stream playback stops

Nikotine · November 14, 2021, 10:16pm

Is anyone else having problems with the RTSP camera stream playback?
I have a Hikvision camera, added with the ONVIF integration.
Playback works for a few seconds, then the spinning loading icon and the timeline appear, but the playback doesn’t continue, even though the total time continues to increase.

I’ve tried with both the camera mainstream and substream.
The substream plays a few seconds longer, but then it stops as well.

This is with h.264 in Chrome, running HA docker on an RPi4.
I don’t believe it’s the RPi4 stalling, as cpu barely raises when watching the stream.

The rtsp stream plays without issues in vlc player.

Nikotine · November 15, 2021, 9:20am

It works perfectly with the rtsp stream of my Amcrest doorbell, but not the Hikvision rtsp stream.
Again, in HA frontend, vlc has no issues.

I found this bug report, which sounds like exactly what I’m experiencing:

github.com/home-assistant/core

rtsp stream stops working in frontend with homeassistant.components.stream.worker warning in the main log

opened 02:57PM - 15 Oct 20 UTC

closed 09:48PM - 28 Oct 20 UTC

hioctane61

integration: stream

## The problem  RTSP stream stops working after around 30 seconds in the frontend. The stream works perfectly fine in VLC outside of homeassistant ## Environment arch | x86_64 chassis | desktop dev | false docker | true docker_version | 19.03.13 hassio | true host_os | Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) installation_type | Home Assistant Supervised os_name | Linux os_version | 5.7.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 python_version | 3.8.5 supervisor | 247 version | 0.116.3 virtualenv | false The device is an Amcrest AD110 doorbell camera I know that this was working fine in 0.115.x, no errors, working very well. Something changed in 0.116.x and this issue manifested itself. - Home Assistant Core release with the issue: 0.116.x - Last working Home Assistant Core release (if known): 0.115.6 - Operating environment (OS/Container/Supervised/Core): Supervised - Integration causing this issue: Stream - Link to integration documentation on our website: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/stream/ ## Problem-relevant `configuration.yaml`  ``` stream: amcrest: - host: 192.168.86.209 name: Doorbell Camera username: !secret amcrest_username password: !secret amcrest_pw stream_source: rtsp binary_sensors: - motion_detected - online ``` ## Traceback/Error logs  ``` 2020-10-15 15:56:11 WARNING (stream_worker) [homeassistant.components.stream.worker] Timestamp overflow detected: dts = 632496, resetting stream 2020-10-15 15:56:13 WARNING (stream_worker) [homeassistant.components.stream.worker] Dropping out of order packet: 24300 <= 24300 ``` ## Additional information

Only, I don’t have any error messages in the log, even after setting homeassistant.components.stream.worker log level to debug.

Nikotine · November 15, 2021, 3:54pm

I checked Chrome network performance.
The issues start when it can’t load init.mp4 anymore:

Autonomous · November 9, 2022, 8:47pm

Same issue exists with rtsp stream playback stopping in v 2022.11. To keep a rtsp session alive a periodic request needs to be sent before the timeout parameter in setup.

See: