RTSP streaming IP camera

[hdu_ai]

Hi all,
I want to connect and stream video from IP Camera. But i do not know any RTSP streaming libraries, please suggest help me?
Thanks!

[wodin]

Hi. Maybe try react-native-live-stream, but you will have to eject:

react-native-live-stream

Also upvote this feature request:

RTSP Video Player | Voters | Expo

[hdu_ai]

Thanks @wodin, but i can not success with this lib. It have a lot of bugs. https://github.com/wonday/react-native-live-stream/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue. One more, i still can not connect to IP Camera.

[wodin]

Maybe you could use something like react-native-vlc-player?

Otherwise, maybe you can write your own React Native library by wrapping libcurl, e.g. using this?

[hdu_ai]

Thanks @wodin, i think that i prefer use react-native-vlc-player instead of other libs. But i can not find any expo project use react-native-vlc-player. If you have used it, please give me an example.

[wodin]

Sorry, @hdu_ai, I have not used it. But I think you would need to do this:

$ expo eject

and then after that you follow the instructions for a normal React Native app:

GitHub - ekreative/react-native-vlc-player

I see there are a few different react native VLC libraries. I don’t know which is best, so you would probably have to try them out to see if they work for you.

GitHub - ekreative/react-native-vlc-player

GitHub - xuyuanzhou/react-native-yz-vlcplayer: VLC Player for react-native

This looks like it’s iOS only:

GitHub - xiongchuan86/react-native-vlcplayer: react-native wrapper the vlcplayer

This looks like it’s Android only:

GitHub - ghondar/react-native-vlc-player: VLC Player for react-native

[hdu_ai]

Thanks @wodin,

1. I have not Macbook PC, i have Windows OS, so i prefer using Expo project instead of React Native CLI.
2. All of your’s suggest are use React Native CLI project (because android and ios folder in project). I do not like this, i want to convert to Expo project.
3. I want to write only an app that runs on ios and andoird.

[wodin]

Then I think you will have to upvote the feature request here and wait for someone to implement it:

@wodin

RTSP Video Player | Voters | Expo

Other people have asked for this before, but Expo does not currently support RTSP, so the only way to do it would be to eject.

See these old threads:

Is RTSP supported in Video?

Hi there, i would like to stream a video from a URL like rtsp://184.72.239.149/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny_115k.mov . But it doesn’t seem to work with the Video player from Expo.

How to implement RTSP in Expo?

Good day there was a need to implement streaming video in the application. Format links like this : rtsp://user:password@**.**.***.**:****/Streaming/Channels/ Are there any ways to implement this in Expo? Is it possible to implement it somehow through WebView ? UPD: Maybe someone knows how to implement the module in Expo project :

[hdu_ai]

Thanks @wodin, i have read 2 question about rstp in Expo and i really hope that someone fix it. Btw, i so thanks to you about all of advices.

[zissou]

Hi guys, I see that some time has passed and still nothing about RTSP. I am new to reactive and expo and now I run into the problem. is anyone willing to cooperate?

[kani]

Really need a streaming feature

[softov]

Any news about something in this thread?
I have a server, I can create rtsp, ws, http, …

But in the expo app, how can I do? What I need to do do receive a video, or frames and stream it?

How can I stream a live video over a app, using expo?

[wodin]

Hi @softov

If there’s an RTSP library that works with react native then this should be possible now with Expo SDK 42 (or later) using EAS Build and maybe Config Plugins.

I had a bit of a search and it seems this is the most promising project, but I haven’t tried it. Based on the installation instructions it looks like you won’t need a config plugin:

GitHub - razorRun/react-native-vlc-media-player: React native media player...

[petrus.b13]

It doesn’t work with react native.64 and newer. I tested it,it’s full of errors.