[RTSP Stream][Jetson-Inference] Cannot stream from another device to jetson Nx board

Robotics & Edge Computing Jetson & Embedded Systems Jetson Orin NX
1

Hi ,

I have some problems that RTSP Stream Not Displaying on Client with Jetson Inference video-viewer.

Environment:

  • Server: Jetson Orin NX (JetPack 6.2, L4T 36.4.4, TensorRT 10.3)

  • Client: Jetson NX (Ubuntu 20.04)

  • Jetson Inference: Latest build

  • Camera: USB camera supporting H264/MJPEG/YUYV (1280x720@30fps)

Problem Description:

I’m trying to stream video from one Jetson to another using RTSP with jetson-inference’s video-viewer, but the client doesn’t display the video stream properly.

Server command:

bash

./video-viewer /dev/video2 rtsp://@:8554/mystream

Client command:

bash

ffplay rtsp://192.168.1.180:8554/mystream

Issue:

  • The RTSP server starts successfully and captures frames (confirmed by server output showing “captured X frames (1280x720)”)

  • Port 8554 is listening (confirmed with netstat -tuln | grep 8554)

  • RTSP server responds to requests (curl -I rtsp://localhost:8554/mystream returns RTSP/1.0 200 OK)

  • Client connects successfully and receives stream metadata (SDP negotiation successful, H264 codec detected)

  • BUT: No video is displayed on the client - the window shows nan M-V: nan fd= 0 aq= 0KB vq= 0KB sq= 0B f=0/0

  • Strangely, when I stop the server (Ctrl+C), the client window briefly appears with a single frame before closing

Server Warnings (with GST_DEBUG=3):

[gstreamer] GST_LEVEL_WARNING GstAppSrc basesrc
              streaming stopped, reason not-linked (-1)
[gstreamer] GST_LEVEL_WARNING rtspmedia
              got error Internal data stream error
[gstreamer] GST_LEVEL_WARNING GstAppSink basesink  
              Pipeline construction is invalid, please add queues

What I’ve Tried:

  1. Different ffplay options: -fflags nobuffer -flags low_delay -framedrop

  2. Different transport protocols: -rtsp_transport tcp/udp

  3. Various video-viewer options: --output-codec=h264 --bitrate=4000000

  4. Different input codecs: --input-codec=mjpeg

  5. VLC and gst-launch-1.0 as clients (same issue)

Client Debug Output:

[h264 @ 0xffff5c003ea0] Format yuv420p chosen by get_format().
[h264 @ 0xffff5c003ea0] Reinit context to 1280x720, pix_fmt: yuv420p
Input #0, rtsp, from 'rtsp://192.168.1.180:8554/mystream':
  Metadata:
    title           : Session streamed with GStreamer
    comment         : rtsp-server
  Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Constrained Baseline), yuv420p, 1280x720, 30 tbr

Questions:

  1. How can I fix this issue?

  2. Is there a working example of RTSP streaming between two Jetson devices using jetson-inference tools?

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much!

3

Hi,
Please try
Jetson AGX Orin FAQ
Jetson AGX Orin FAQ

Please set up RTSP server through test-launch.

4

Hi,

Thank you for your suggestion, it now can stream with commands in my devices:

# server: ./test-launch “v4l2src device=/dev/video2 do-timestamp=true ! video/x-raw,width=2560,height=1440,framerate=30/1 ! nvvidconv ! nvv4l2h264enc bitrate=2000000 ! h264parse ! rtph264pay name=pay0 pt=96 config-interval=1”

#client: ffplay rtsp://192.168.1.180:8554/test

As you can see, the resolution for streaming is 2k@30FPS, but when I tried with 4k@30FPS, it shows the error on the client side:

[rtsp @ 0xffff6c000ba0] method DESCRIBE failed: 503 Service Unavailable rtsp://192.168.1.180:8554/test: Server returned 5XX Server Error reply

Is there anyway to optimize the pipeline to stream at 4k@30FPS?

Thank you