Why is ffmpeg and vlc able run RTSP stream but gstreamer is unable to?

[Goonturr]

I have a RTSP server streaming out h264 video. Both ffmpeg ( ffplay uri )and vlc are able to stream the video but gstreamer is unable to.

Below is the output of gstreamer when gst-play uri is launched:

ERROR Your GStreamer installation is missing a plug-in. for rtsp://---- ERROR debug information: ../gst/playback/gsturidecodebin.c(1028): no_more_pads_full (): /GstPlayBin:playbin/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0: no suitable plugins found: ../gst/rtsp/gstrtspsrc.c(7691): gst_rtspsrc_setup_streams_start (): /GstPlayBin:playbin/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstRTSPSrc:source Reached end of play list.

Am I missing certain gstreamer plugins or is my RTSP video stream set up wrongly?

Appreciate any advice! Thank you!

[kayccc]

Please provide complete information as applicable to your setup.

• Hardware Platform (Jetson / GPU)
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• TensorRT Version
• NVIDIA GPU Driver Version (valid for GPU only)
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[DaneLLL]

Hi,
Please check if you can run this command:

gst-launch-1.0 rtspsrc location=_RTSP_URI_ ! rtph264depay ! h264parse ! nvv4l2decoder ! nvoverlaysink

[Goonturr]

@DaneLLL

gst-launch-1.0 rtspsrc location=_RTSP_URI_ ! rtph264depay ! h264parse ! nvv4l2decoder ! nvoverlaysink

Hello DaneLLL

Thank you for the reply!

I got the following after running the above command:

[DaneLLL]

Hi,
Please clean gstreamer cache and try again:

$ rm .cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.aarch64.bin

If the plugin is still absent, suggest re-install DeepStream SDK.

Not sure but you should use PC with desktop GPU. On Jetson platforms, the plugin is installed by default.

[Goonturr]

Hello DaneLLL,

Currently, I am getting this warning when running the command: WARNING: erroneous pipeline: no element “nvv4l2decoder”

May I know which plugins I am missing and how to install them? (Like a sudo apt)

I am running gstreamer on Ubuntu WSL on Windows 10.

Thank you.

[Goonturr]

Hello DaneLL,

When executing this command (gst-launch-1.0 rtspsrc location=rtsp://--- --gst-debug=3) I get this output:

Not sure how to make sense of this because my RTSP stream is sending via TCP.

[Goonturr]

UPDATE: Managed to solve the above errors seemed to be a udp uri issue. However, there is a new error from gstreamer:

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

[DaneLLL]

Hi,
Do you use Jetson platforms like Xavier or Jetson Nano?

[Goonturr]

I am not on any Jetson platforms.

[kayccc]

Which hardware platform you’re using?

[Fiona.Chen]

rtspsrc follows RFC 2326, please check with your RTSP server vendor whether it follows RFC 2326.

rtspsrc (gstreamer.freedesktop.org)