Comment 36 for bug 790216

TL;DR: Try ffplay. The standard player in the FFMPEG package.

We have had the same problem with monitoring surveillance steam of sub-par cameras. After waiting for about a year I am trying it again, right now, using the latest snap version. At this very moment of typing, I am looking at two different windows. One is a stream displayed in vlc, the other in ffplay. Same source, which still is a crappy stream of a crappy camera.

For those of you interested: I started the stream without any special voodoo. Just "vlc 'rtsp://URL'" repectively "ffplay rtsp://URL".

Result: The VLC window is frozen almost permanently. It updates between every 15 seconds and once every other minute. ffplay produces a constantly moving picture. It's not great, bco of the low quality of the crappy stream, but I can see what happens in front of the camera.

So, what am I supposed to think now? Is FFMPEG the superior product for my use case?