RTSP and RPi Bookworm

[Nottub]

Thank you Simon.

I’ll be sure to post back on my results.

I am tackling the errors/ issues line by line. So the imagemagick convert will come later.

As ever on this forum thanks for sharing your knowledge.


Martyn

[ConligWX]

no problem. some of the text values have pixel values. start and end of lines etc depending on the size of your rtsp image too. it will take time to get it correct. but should be able to help with that once we have a image captured.

[Nottub]

Hi,

Partial success. I can run the Bash script to generate a snapshot(with a couple of errors, in addition to the code I haven't amended as yet), and save it to my Pictures folder.

The resultant terminal screen opens with all the ffmpeg details first, then shows all the additional steps taken to follow the script.

The error:

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[image2 @ 0x55bcf67630] The specified filename '/home/pi2/Pictures/scene.jpeg' does not contain an image sequence pattern or a pattern is invalid.
[image2 @ 0x55bcf67630] Use a pattern such as %03d for an image sequence or use the -update option (with -frames:v 1 if needed) to write a single image.

Oh and it doesn't seem to like a .jpg extension but works with .jpeg.

I'll plod through amending the rest of your code amending to suit my circumstances later.
Also introduce myself to running a CRON job to automate these updates.

Thanks for helping out.

Martyn

[ConligWX]

The error:

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[image2 @ 0x55bcf67630] The specified filename '/home/pi2/Pictures/scene.jpeg' does not contain an image sequence pattern or a pattern is invalid.
[image2 @ 0x55bcf67630] Use a pattern such as %03d for an image sequence or use the -update option (with -frames:v 1 if needed) to write a single image.

Oh and it doesn't seem to like a .jpg extension but works with .jpeg.

Thanks for helping out.

Martyn

it maybe a difference in ffmpeg versions I guess or compiled modules perhaps. the command line values maybe slightly different.

[Nottub]

The error:

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[image2 @ 0x55bcf67630] The specified filename '/home/pi2/Pictures/scene.jpeg' does not contain an image sequence pattern or a pattern is invalid.
[image2 @ 0x55bcf67630] Use a pattern such as %03d for an image sequence or use the -update option (with -frames:v 1 if needed) to write a single image.

Oh and it doesn't seem to like a .jpg extension but works with .jpeg.

Thanks for helping out.

Martyn

it maybe a difference in ffmpeg versions I guess or compiled modules perhaps. the command line values maybe slightly different.

Happy so far Simon

I'll be looking at a CRON job next.

Thank you

Martyn

[Nottub]

Simon,

you can also use ffmpeg to create a timelapse video is your want to with another script I have.

If you’re still willing to send the Timelapse code, I’d love to have a go.

Many thanks again.

Martyn

[Nossie]

I haven't really looked at overlays for a while, but this is really useful - thanks!

[ConligWX]

Simon,

you can also use ffmpeg to create a timelapse video is your want to with another script I have.

If you’re still willing to send the Timelapse code, I’d love to have a go.

Many thanks again.

Martyn

just rename the timelapse.txt to timelapse.sh

this is an old script I had many years ago. I dont however use it now but it was working.

[Nottub]

Simon,

you can also use ffmpeg to create a timelapse video is your want to with another script I have.

If you’re still willing to send the Timelapse code, I’d love to have a go.

Many thanks again.

Martyn

just rename the timelapse.txt to timelapse.sh

this is an old script I had many years ago. I dont however use it now but it was working.

Many thanks Simon, i'll be sure to take a look at this.

BTW I did create a CRONJOB for the webcam capture script you provided and it worked a treat, updating every two minutes.
https://www.calvertoncam.co.uk/weather/overlay

Many thanks

Martyn

[ConligWX]

nice you, just gotta add it to the cmx template as a page:)

https://www.conligwx.org/webcam.htm

I dont however use the htm cmx template. I prefer Niel's Reworked default website template as its just more appealing.

https://www.conligwx.org/webcam.html

[ConligWX]

Hi,

Partial success. I can run the Bash script to generate a snapshot(with a couple of errors, in addition to the code I haven't amended as yet), and save it to my Pictures folder.

The resultant terminal screen opens with all the ffmpeg details first, then shows all the additional steps taken to follow the script.

The error:

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[image2 @ 0x55bcf67630] The specified filename '/home/pi2/Pictures/scene.jpeg' does not contain an image sequence pattern or a pattern is invalid.
[image2 @ 0x55bcf67630] Use a pattern such as %03d for an image sequence or use the -update option (with -frames:v 1 if needed) to write a single image.

Martyn

i had a similar issue with mine recently ended up fixing this with "-frames:v 1 -update 1"

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/opt/ffmpeg/ffmpeg -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsps://192.168.1.22:5678/hYHihPWuoJzS5W0A?enableSrtp -vf scale=2688:1512 -frames:v 1 -update 1 /share/weather/sky1.jpg -y

ChatGPT took care of it.

I also have tried using the new feature of "enhanced" image on my camera, but ffmpeg complains of codec issues with the stream when using h265

chatgpt blames the rtsp stream so not sure if I can use the h265 codec as yet.