Direct ethernet connected camera - output to Mainsail interface webcam

[chrome mirage]

I want to add an IP Camera RTSP stream to Mainsail OS. I have crowsnest installed and everything.
The camera is connected with direct cable to my Manta M8P with CB1 and configured with static IP . OS installed on the CB1 ( Raspberry pi CM4 clone) is debian 11
Pinging the camera from debian ssh returns valid response so the camera is visible.
With another PC connected directly to the camera via ethernet cable, i extracted the RTSP stream but inputting it into Mainsail webcam just gives me a white image.

Camera is a longse IP camera 1080p, supports ONVIF also.

It doesnt really matter if its rtsp or something else as long as i can get it to output an video stream to mainsail interface. Any thoughts?

[loud comet]

Well, first of all, this doesnt belong to the OS itself, but crowsnest is a streamer that expects an Raspicam Type or USB Type cam. It does not read external Streams!

RTSP Streams arent supported in mainsail. You need to convert that stream to an mjpeg stream any how.

So, if the IP Cam can deliver an mjpeg stream you have to find out its URL and put that into the "stream" URL in mainsail itself

Another possible solution ist to use a snapshot function of the IP camera and using that URL and using "Adaptive Mode" in mainsail

[chrome mirage]

it suports onvif protocol

not sure if thats something

[loud comet]

I explained your options... Onvif isnt on that list, thats an Industrial Standard and not used or supported in mainsail.

[chrome mirage]

i understand