Mediaplayer plays RTSP stream from camera, how to restore connection after break?

isstar

Hi. I have simple QML module, which shows stream from IP-camera. It works, but if I switch off camera for some seconds, the image freeses for aproximately 20 sec, only then playbackState becomes 0, and I see a white screen. The connection doesn't come alive automaticly.

import QtQuick 2.15
import QtQml 2.15
import QtQuick.Window 2.15
import QtMultimedia 5.15

Item
{
    MediaPlayer
    {
        id: mediaPlayer
        source: "rtsp://192.168.88.179:554/user=admin_password=_channel=0_stream=0.sdp?real_stream"
        autoPlay: true
        autoLoad: true
        videoOutput: camera_1
        onError:
        {
            console.debug("onError() - error=" + error + ", errorString=" + errorString)
        }
        onPlaybackStateChanged:
        {
            console.debug("onPlaybackStateChanged() - state=" + playbackState)
            if(playbackState == 0)
            {
                mediaPlayer.play();
            }
        }
    }

    VideoOutput
    {
        id: camera_1
        width: 1024
        height: 600
        source: mediaPlayer
    }
}

Is there any way to cheer up the connection? Or I have to reload my QML module from the caller for completly restart it? Like this https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qml-qtquick-loader.html?

I don't want to complicate program. I wrote it in Creator on Widgets. I have some QQuickWidgets in it, which twists QML code all the time. I switch between them by button. It is something like car panel.

SGaist

Hi,

What about clearing the source value and then setting it again to the stream URL ?

isstar

Ok. This solution works:

onPlaybackStateChanged:
{
    if(playbackState == 0)
    {
        source = ""
        source = "rtsp://192.168.88.179:554/user=admin_password=_channel=0_stream=0.sdp?real_stream"
        mediaPlayer.play();
    }
}

Also, it works without source = "", if I use another login-password pare at every reconnect. It generates "source change" event too.

Now I have to find a way to fasten the playbackState reaction on actual loss of connection.