Blue Iris

Trying to stream to Google Cast and no luck. Based on BI documentation and on the fact that Google Cast honors h246 codec I'm using this URL to stream

http://192.168.1.5:91/h264/MG/temp.h264

This produces dark screen on the target device. If I use https

https://192.168.1.5:91/h264/MG/temp.h264

than the screen is not dark anymore It shows progress bar endlessly.

Last but not least if I try to use the same with VLC software I also do not see the video.
Please help as this is important to me.

Thanks,

Well, I don't stream to Google Cast, but for VLC you need something like:
rtsp://admin:<password>@192.168.50.32/Streaming/Channels/1

Where <password> is my camera's admin password and "Streaming/Channels/1" comes from Stream Profiles Main.

Google Cast?

Methinks they mean chromecast. Never tried such, don't use Chrome.

It would appear so according to a little Googling, but ya never know what they may spring on us without much notice!

It would also appear to require a rather convoluted process to stream a camera directly to a Chromecast device (or TV with the feature integrated into the hardware)..., let alone have it be an automated function based on a typical BI trigger.

According to a little more Googling, Chromecast actually wants to see an HLS input from what I've found so far. The HA/Docker approach seems to be the preferred method via ffmpeg with VLC being next in line with the latter introducing up to a 10sec delay in both audio and video to facilitate the RTSP -> HLS conversion.

So unless this is a HA/Docker/Raspberry exercise and not necessarily a practical real-world application for a TV in a living room, I'd just go with tinyCam or VLC on a streaming device and be done with it -- which is what I do.

The other option would be UI3 or a direct HDMI BI input -- obviously.

And thinking about the UI3 approach, maybe cast it to the receiving device from an Android or iOS phone?

There's a fair amount of info on the subject with a little searching.