Access IP Camera using imutils VideoStream

Question

I'm using the line below to fetch video stream from my laptop camera and it works great.

vs = VideoStream(src=0).start()

But now, I want the source to be an IP Camera and not my laptop camera. Is there a way like just changing the src to the IP of the camera? I've searched all over and what I mostly saw was using the cv2 VideoCapture method. I'm wondering if that solution will also work with VideoStream function.

Thanks!

Answer 1

First make a variable, setting login credentials of IP camera. Example

rtsp_url = "rtsp://name:password/video"
vs = VideoStream(rtsp_url).start()

Answer 2

I've made it work.

For future references, yes. The method used by cv2 VideoCapture function also works on imutils' VideoStream function.