Frigate RTSP Server

[tliaresq]

Is it possible for Frigate to act as an RTSP server and accept an RTSP stream from something that is not a server itself?

For example if I want to display a stream coming directly from an ffmpeg command (The below example does not work):
ffmpeg command:
ffmpeg -re -i video.mp4 -c copy -f rtsp rtsp:https://localhost:8554/mystream

config.yml:

mqtt:
  enabled: False

cameras:
  camera_1:
    ffmpeg:
      inputs:
        - path: rtsp:https://localhost:8554/mystream
          roles:
            - record

I do not think it is supported based on the docs but I just wanted to confirm here!

[NickM-27]

Yes, this is supported by go2rtc which is built in to frigate

[tliaresq]

Awesome, thanks for the quick reply! As a follow up question. If we already have an RTSP stream but the video feed is two stacked images, and we want to un-stack those, can we do that using the ffmpeg input/output args in the frigate config file? We would ideally like to see the unstacked feed in the Frigate live UI + Birdseye as well as in the recordings.

[NickM-27]

that's a tough one, I would also recommend handling that in go2rtc

[tliaresq]

okay thank you, I can dig into it some more

[vpzomtrrfrt]

how does one do this? is it documented somewhere?