New camera: Connection refused

[macdr...@gmail.com]

I got hold of a Foscam QJ4 wired camera.

The ispy site says RTSP works with:

rtsp://<ip>/videoMain  and appropriate user/password

or

rtsp://<ip>/videoSub

But, when I use Add Camera (selected Network Camera) it just says connection refused.

The FOSCAM android apps confirms the ip address...

[StarbaseSSD]

Are you putting in the correct username and password capitalizations?

The correct /videoMain and /videoSub capitalizations?

With my Foscams I had to use the port number also:
rtsp://<ip_address>:88/videoMain

[macdr...@gmail.com]

After I hit send..of course, I realized I had not typed things correctly, despite having looked at it multiple times.

I'm connected now and trying to get best streaming. Seems choppy lot of lag time at this point.

[StarbaseSSD]

Lag / choppy is usually due to too fast a frame rate and / or networking issues.

I would lower resolution to 800x600 and frames to 10 FPS, and slowly increase them one or the other a bit at a time. On a gigabit network, I get 10 fps, at either 800x600 or 1280x720 on 6 cameras, 3 wifi g/n, 2 ethernet, and 1 USB...

2 of the 1280x720 cameras are FOSCAM set up rtsp:// and one is the USB...

[macdr...@gmail.com]

Hmm...I'm going to tinker more later, but, I think it is set 640x480 @5fps.

Wondering if it just the RPi4 being a light weight computer...