Force FFMPEG to use TCP protocol when reading a RTSP Stream

Question

I\'m running ffmpeg (Windows 7, 64bit) from command line to get a frame from a RTSP stream (second channel from my DVR):

ffmpeg  -i \"rtsp://xxx.xxx         


        

Answer 1

Just put the -rtsp_transport tcp right after ffmpeg to apply it on the input stream. Like this:

ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -i "rtsp://x.x.x.x:554/user=x&password=x&channel=2&stream=0.sdp" -y video.jpg