GstRtspSink - Basic Authentication
The page describes how to use the basic RTSP authentication shipped with GstRtspSink.
Configuring Authentication
GstRtspSink can be configured to allow streaming to a restricted set username/password pairs. To do so, use the auth property.
The auth property syntax adheres to the following syntax:
auth=user1:password1,user2:password2,....userN:passwordN
The following example will allow streaming to two different users: adrian and user. Their passwords are, respectively: cervantes and pass.
gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! x264enc ! video/x-h264, mapping=/stream1 ! rtspsink service=5000 auth=adrian:cervantes,user:pass
Considerations
- If the "auth" property is not set, the clients will not require any authentication from the server.
- If a user entry is malformed, GstRtspSink will ignore it and will continue processing the rest. For example, the following snippet is malformed because there are no colons ":" after user1.
rtspsink service=5000 auth=adrian:cervantes,user1,user:pass
In such case, user1 would be ignored.
- If a user has an empty password, that user will not need a password to connect. For example:
rtspsink service=5000 auth=user:
Streaming will be restricted to user but a password will not be required.
Receiving the Stream
The following subsections show, as examples, how to connect to an authenticated session from two standard clients: VLC and GStreamer. Both examples assume that GstRtspSink was started as the following:
gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc is-live=true ! x264enc tune=zerolatency ! capsfilter caps="video/x-raw,mapping=/auth_test" ! rtspsink auth=anonymous:secret service=5000
VLC
To connect via VLC you may provide the username and password directly:
SERVER_IP=localhost
PORT=5000
MAPPING=auth_test
USER=anonymous
PASSWORD=secret
vlc rtsp://${USER}:${PASSWORD}@${SERVER_IP}:${PORT}/${MAPPING}
Additionally, the username and password can be left out of the command, in which case VLC will prompt for them in a dialog.
GStreamer
To connect via GstRtspSrc you provide the username and password directly into the URI.
SERVER_IP=localhost
PORT=5000
MAPPING=auth_test
USER=anonymous
PASSWORD=secret
gst-launch-1.0 rtspsrc location="rtsp://${USER}:${PASSWORD}@${SERVER_IP}:${PORT}/${MAPPING}" ! rtph264depay ! decodebin ! autovideosink
