Some IP webcams requires Quicktime to show the image throught the browser. To get the full URI with the video source, you can get it from a virtual machine with windows throught wireshark like this: rtsp://192.168.1.100:554/user=admin&password=&channel=1&stream=0.sdp To reproduce it with vlc, use this command: vlc "rtsp://192.168.1.100:554/user=admin&password=&channel=1&stream=0.sdp" Probably you should see the first frame as static frame and the following error: Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory avcodec decoder error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?) You can install libvdpau-va-gl1 dependencie, but the problem persists. If you prefer to use vlc (if you compile it with hw acceleration), you can enable the option --avcodec-hw vdpau If you don't have vlc with hw acceleration enabled, you can use mvp. To install it, fol