Publishing to RTSP Channel with Authentication using rtspclientsink

[ajianjalil]

Question

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to publish a video stream to an RTSP channel using GStreamer's rtspclientsink element. I need to authenticate with a username and password, and I want the output URL to be in the format rtsp://username:password@ip_address:554/video.

Can someone please guide me on how to set up the rtspclientsink element to achieve this? Specifically:

• How do I set the username and password properties?
• What is the correct format for the location property?

[ajianjalil]

As of now I am able to run with
this setup as following

gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! nvh264enc ! rtspclientsink protocols=tcp location=rtsp://ajith:1234@localhost:554/video1

But I am not able to setup username or pwd

This is my rtsp config

###############################################
# RTSP parameters

# Enable support for the RTSP protocol.
rtsp: yes
# List of enabled RTSP transport protocols.
# UDP is the most performant, but doesn't work when there's a NAT/firewall between
# server and clients, and doesn't support encryption.
# UDP-multicast allows to save bandwidth when clients are all in the same LAN.
# TCP is the most versatile, and does support encryption.
# The handshake is always performed with TCP.
protocols: [tcp]
# protocols: [udp, multicast, tcp]
# Encrypt handshakes and TCP streams with TLS (RTSPS).
# Available values are "no", "strict", "optional".
encryption: "no"
# Address of the TCP/RTSP listener. This is needed only when encryption is "no" or "optional".
rtspAddress: :554
# Address of the TCP/TLS/RTSPS listener. This is needed only when encryption is "strict" or "optional".
rtspsAddress: :8322
# Address of the UDP/RTP listener. This is needed only when "udp" is in protocols.
rtpAddress: :8000
# Address of the UDP/RTCP listener. This is needed only when "udp" is in protocols.
rtcpAddress: :8001
# IP range of all UDP-multicast listeners. This is needed only when "multicast" is in protocols.
multicastIPRange: 224.1.0.0/16
# Port of all UDP-multicast/RTP listeners. This is needed only when "multicast" is in protocols.
multicastRTPPort: 8002
# Port of all UDP-multicast/RTCP listeners. This is needed only when "multicast" is in protocols.
multicastRTCPPort: 8003
# Path to the server key. This is needed only when encryption is "strict" or "optional".
# This can be generated with:
# openssl genrsa -out server.key 2048
# openssl req -new -x509 -sha256 -key server.key -out server.crt -days 3650
serverKey: server.key
# Path to the server certificate. This is needed only when encryption is "strict" or "optional".
serverCert: server.crt
# Authentication methods. Available are "basic" and "digest".
# "digest" doesn't provide any additional security and is available for compatibility reasons only.
authMethods: [basic]

[aler9]

Authentication is documented in the README:
https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx?tab=readme-ov-file#authentication