How to find an IP camera's RTSP URL with Wireshark!

[nightcrayon]

Still a great video. A lot of the recent cameras use a phone app to set up and view the camera. A trick I found here was to turn on Internet Sharing on the Mac (would work with WIndows too I presume). Then join your phone and the camera to your computer's shared internet connection. Then run wireshark as in the video. Start scanning and then start viewing the video with the app from your phone. The rtsp traffic will be seen on your computer's network interface since it all has to run through it- since you forced all three devices (computer, phone, camera) through the "router software" running on your computer. Then once you get the rtsp url, you can turn off internet sharing and change the camera back to your normal wifi network (and just replace the IP address in the URL you found with the one that it picks up from your normal wifi network).

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[jimothyh]

My cheap camera doesn't operate on rtsp but has a UDP stream. Any pointers on how to ascertain the URL?

[DevilbyMoonlight]

thanks for posting this, its been over 10 years since since I done anything in wireshark or touched a cisco router, and it shows lol, I got a camera with the exact same web interface but its english, and because I was struggling with an issue I developed my vision over the last few years, I have never got the web ui to display anything but thanks to this little refresh i got the stream running in vlc - thanks again for posting

[plasmar]

I'm not sure what changed but I had this work for me before and yet right now it's not:S.... I know latest version of wireshark doesn't seem to support win7, tried older version didn't work, tried win10 and still didn't kinda wish I recall which ip camera I managed to get the rtsp stream from to try to reproduce the same result

[seelanreddy]

well done, thank you for the information, i managed to get my ring camera stream

[RP]

Thanks - RTSP url popped up almost instantly in Wireshark

[thefsh]

Awesome! worked instantly for Digoo BB-M1 camera. Thank you!

[rickycapistrano]

can the usb webcam find the url sir ??

[sandeshrokade]

Hello, My IP camera is connected wirelessly to my router, my tab is connected to the same router, on the same network, tab has camera application and it can see the camera. My laptop which is also on the same network (wifi connection to router) hs wireshark. when I run capture on wifi I don;t see any streams of camera. What I need to do to get the stream in this capture? Need to get the RTSP url for the camera.

[bricssi]

Is it compulsory that my PC should be connected the same wifi network as the camera?
For now, my PC and the wifi router are in the same network

[Music-lvxf]

are you connected to something like NVR or DVR when you do this??

[debojitacharjee]

how do i find the rtsp url of c11 camera? Wireshark did found the ip address but i need port number also to view it. Do u know about this wifi pen camera? My camera works with only one Android app called Finalcam but I want to use on PC also.

[supra]

I don't see nothing on rtsp. The ip camera has to be on?

[MilanKarakas]

You know what is interesting?! Xiaomi camera (MI 360 home security camera) does not show any sign of life. I know the IP, but nothing else. IP scanner does not even show name of the camera, nor wireshark detect any activity of this port. What might be wrong?

[kevinle]

For those that couldnt see the RTSP stream pop up in Wireshark, just be patient ;)

Thanks mate btw.

[FZahemZXD]

Hi, mi camera dont work with RSTP since the new DVR firmware update, and IE conect trow other protocol. I will try to clone the DVR mac and with a switch capture all the packets from other sources (cell, web interface), would be greate if i cand send you some packets if I cant make it work.

[GabrielBurchard]

Super cool worked for me with the exact same URL as yours. But I have one Question....i use the cam with ISpy but i cant get the PTZ feature you have an idea ?

[joedinkinsjr.]

I ran my Ozwi Securcam through Wireshark but all I got were "encrypted handshake" messages. Am I out of luck?

[vexplore]

Thanks for that !!!! Very usefull !!!!