[Camera Support]: Tapo C200 RTSP used to work but not anymore

Describe the problem you are having

I had a Tapo C200 camera connected to Frigate and it worked great until last month when I updated to 0.11.1. Now Frigate keeps throwing an error "ffmpeg.garage.detect ERROR : rtsp://<user>:<pass>@c200cam1:554/stream2: Invalid data found when processing input

I tried reverting to 0.10.1, 0.9.4, and 0.8.4 and it never worked again.

Version

0.10.1

Frigate config file

mqtt:
  host: mqtt.behbeh.home
  user: frigate
  password: <pass>
cameras:
  garage:
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp://{FRIGATE_RTSP_USER}:{FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}@c200cam1:554/stream2
          roles:
            - detect
        - path: rtsp://{FRIGATE_RTSP_USER}:{FRIGATE_RTSP_PASSWORD}@c200cam1:554/stream1
          roles:
#            - record
            - rtmp
    detect:
      width: 640
      height: 360
      fps: 5
    rtmp:
      enabled: True

Relevant log output

[2022-11-13 22:04:21] frigate.app                    INFO    : Starting Frigate (0.10.1-83481af)
Starting migrations
[2022-11-13 22:04:21] peewee_migrate                 INFO    : Starting migrations
There is nothing to migrate
[2022-11-13 22:04:21] peewee_migrate                 INFO    : There is nothing to migrate
[2022-11-13 22:04:21] frigate.app                    INFO    : Output process started: 218
[2022-11-13 22:04:21] detector.cpu                   INFO    : Starting detection process: 217
[2022-11-13 22:04:21] frigate.edgetpu                WARNING : CPU detectors are not recommended and should only be used for testing or for trial purposes.
[2022-11-13 22:04:21] ws4py                          INFO    : Using epoll
[2022-11-13 22:04:21] frigate.app                    INFO    : Camera processor started for garage: 223
[2022-11-13 22:04:21] frigate.app                    INFO    : Capture process started for garage: 226
[2022-11-13 22:04:21] ws4py                          INFO    : Using epoll
[2022-11-13 22:04:26] frigate.video                  ERROR   : garage: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process.
[2022-11-13 22:04:26] frigate.video                  ERROR   : garage: ffmpeg process is not running. exiting capture thread...
[2022-11-13 22:04:41] watchdog.garage                ERROR   : Ffmpeg process crashed unexpectedly for garage.
[2022-11-13 22:04:41] watchdog.garage                ERROR   : The following ffmpeg logs include the last 100 lines prior to exit.
[2022-11-13 22:04:41] ffmpeg.garage.detect           ERROR   : rtsp://<user>:<pass>@c200cam1:554/stream2: Invalid data found when processing input
[2022-11-13 22:04:41] ffmpeg.garage.rtmp             ERROR   : rtsp://<user>:<pass>@c200cam1:554/stream1: Invalid data found when processing input
[2022-11-13 22:04:41] watchdog.garage                INFO    : Terminating the existing ffmpeg process...
[2022-11-13 22:04:41] watchdog.garage                INFO    : Waiting for ffmpeg to exit gracefully...
[2022-11-13 22:04:46] frigate.video                  ERROR   : garage: Unable to read frames from ffmpeg process.
[2022-11-13 22:04:46] frigate.video                  ERROR   : garage: ffmpeg process is not running. exiting capture thread...
[2022-11-13 22:04:51] watchdog.garage                ERROR   : Ffmpeg process crashed unexpectedly for garage.
[2022-11-13 22:04:51] watchdog.garage                ERROR   : The following ffmpeg logs include the last 100 lines prior to exit.
[2022-11-13 22:04:51] ffmpeg.garage.detect           ERROR   : rtsp://<user>:<pass>@c200cam1:554/stream2: Invalid data found when processing input
[2022-11-13 22:04:51] ffmpeg.garage.rtmp             ERROR   : rtsp://<user>:<pass>@c200cam1:554/stream1: Invalid data found when processing input
[2022-11-13 22:04:51] watchdog.garage                INFO    : Terminating the existing ffmpeg process...
[2022-11-13 22:04:51] watchdog.garage                INFO    : Waiting for ffmpeg to exit gracefully...

FFprobe output from your camera

root@c2a74e2777ae:/opt/frigate# ffprobe rtsp://<user>:<pass>@c200cam1:554/stream1
ffprobe version 4.3.1 Copyright (c) 2007-2020 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 9 (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04)
  configuration: --disable-debug --disable-doc --disable-ffplay --enable-shared --enable-avresample --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-gpl --enable-libfreetype --enable-libvidstab --enable-libmfx --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-libwebp --enable-libxcb --enable-libx265 --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-nonfree --enable-openssl --enable-libfdk_aac --enable-postproc --enable-small --enable-version3 --enable-libzmq --extra-libs=-ldl --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libkvazaar --enable-libaom --extra-libs=-lpthread --enable-vaapi --extra-cflags=-I/opt/ffmpeg/include --extra-ldflags=-L/opt/ffmpeg/lib
  libavutil      56. 51.100 / 56. 51.100
  libavcodec     58. 91.100 / 58. 91.100
  libavformat    58. 45.100 / 58. 45.100
  libavdevice    58. 10.100 / 58. 10.100
  libavfilter     7. 85.100 /  7. 85.100
  libavresample   4.  0.  0 /  4.  0.  0
  libswscale      5.  7.100 /  5.  7.100
  libswresample   3.  7.100 /  3.  7.100
  libpostproc    55.  7.100 / 55.  7.100
[rtsp @ 0x562d0e96db80] max delay reached. need to consume packet
[rtsp @ 0x562d0e96db80] RTP: missed 1 packets
Input #0, rtsp, from 'rtsp://<user>:<pass>@c200cam1:554/stream1':
  Metadata:
    title           : Session streamed by "TP-LINK RTSP Server"
    comment         : stream1
  Duration: N/A, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264, yuvj420p(pc, bt709, progressive), 1920x1080, 15 fps, 14.92 tbr, 90k tbn, 30 tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: pcm_alaw, 8000 Hz, 1 channels, s16, 64 kb/s
root@c2a74e2777ae:/opt/frigate#

Frigate stats

No response

Operating system

Debian

Install method

Docker Compose

Coral version

CPU (no coral)

Network connection

Wired

Camera make and model

TP-Link Tapo C200

Any other information that may be helpful

I’ve tried saving the video directly with ffmpeg -i rtsp://<user>:<pass>@c200cam1:554/stream1 -an -vcodec copy /config/abc.mp4 and that worked. I also added the camera directly in Home Assistant and that also worked.

[viperk1]

No, it’s on an older laptop but definitely 64bit: Intel® Core™ i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40GHz

[NickM-27]

Thanks for the help! Resource usage is <10% on the system so I’m quite happy to leave it this way, haha.

Doesn’t appear that you’re using hardware acceleration so it could probably be even lower.