I’ve got a RTSP stream I want to play. Its for a camera…but it’s not for a live view. I can get an rtsp stream for a point in time, that I’d like to play.
Is there a dynamic camera, or a dynamic way that with a given rtps stream I can play it back for reviewing on mobile (ios)?
I believe if it’s not an actual live stream, it’s a file and you need to code things to play a media file. I’m not a camera expert, though.
So I had a play after posting, and while the generic camera can’t be a fully dynamic url, it can be templated. So in my case it’s a dahua camera, and I want to access the playback at a certain time for a certain channel (it’s an NVR).
Rather than give it to the dahua integration which has to be set up to record, this is redundant for me as the NVR is 24x7 recording of all the cameras - why double up.
What I’ve found is I can specify the playback string:
rtsp://<ip>:554/cam/playback?channel=1&starttime=2025_12_31_12_30_05&endtime=2025_12_31_12_34_14
So if I template the channel, start time and end time - which I intend to get from a detection alert then i might be able to look at, at least, the last event that occurred.
You can convert to mp4 using ffmpeg.
Command line integration may be used for that
Mount it to media folder and playback at your leisure.