I have a camera running on rtsp link. I want to write python code to check if the camera is live or dead. Similar to using curl to check http if url is working or not. What is a similar command can one use to check rtsp url status?
I have tried using openRTSP on terminal and I want to use it as python script
openRTSP rtsp://test_url_here
You can call FFMPEG to extract a snapshot. If successful stream is accessible.
Test this functionality (exctracting snapshot from rtsp) with https://videonow.live/broadcast-ip-camera-or-stream/ per tutorial at https://broadcastlivevideo.com/publish-ip-camera-stream-to-website/.
Command to extract should be something like:
/usr/bin/ffmpeg -y -frames 1 snapshot.png -rtsp_transport tcp -i rtsp://test_url_here
Then check if snapshot file was created and is not empty.
You can find exact code for functionality in this free open source WP plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/videowhisper-live-streaming-integration/ .