Error method describe failed: 401 unauthorized

Asked Jul 05 '23 at 13:39

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I am trying to connect to an RTSP camera using opencv c++ but for this specific camera i am getting the following message whenever i try to connect

Error method describe failed: 401 unauthorized

the code i used to connect is as follows:

VideoCapture camera;

camera.open("rtsp://ssdadmin:S5D.admin@<IP>:<PORT>/live/221067c3-fa55-4c44-819d-47b54497cfc9", CAP_FFMPEG);

where the username is ssdadmin and the password is S5D.admin and used the correct values for ip and port

I read here that opencv might need url encoding for the password special characters so i switched the "." character in the password to %2E (S5D%2Eadmin) again same problem. knowing that accessing the same url in vlc without encoding the character works.

what am i missing in the address to get the unauthorized message

edited Jul 05 '23 at 16:23

Christoph Rackwitz

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asked Jul 05 '23 at 13:39

EYakoumi

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You're probably missing the right password or login id. That's what "unauthorized" means, usually. – Sam Varshavchik Jul 05 '23 at 13:41
Also could be an OS error when user has unsufficient permissions – blek__ Jul 05 '23 at 14:17
reproduce without opencv, with ffmpeg, from a command line. if that still shows the same error, it's no longer an opencv issue. – Christoph Rackwitz Jul 05 '23 at 16:24

Error method describe failed: 401 unauthorized

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