# Replacing raspivid | vlc RTSP with libcamera and mediamtx
**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/replacing-raspivid-vlc-rtsp-with-libcamera-and-mediamtx/17636
**Category:** Community Tutorials
**Created:** [10 August 2023 16:40 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/replacing-raspivid-vlc-rtsp-with-libcamera-and-mediamtx/17636 "2023-08-10T16:40:37Z")
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### Author:  [@acyanic](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/acyanic)
#### Post date: [10 August 2023 16:40 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/replacing-raspivid-vlc-rtsp-with-libcamera-and-mediamtx/17636/1 "2023-08-10T16:40:37Z")
This is a solution post rather than a problem post. I have now abandoned vlc as a streaming solution.
Last year I had a [very long topic](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/dietpi-resource-lock-raspivid-vlc-stream-issue/6179/30) about streaming problems of the classic Raspberry Pi webcam raspivid | cvlc RTSP solution.
I had issues with a stalling system and stuttering video stream.
Viewing the stream would have 40-50% dropped frames.
This rendered the stream unreadable by motioneye.
TL;DR…
I discovered VLC is not optimal anymore - it’s broken for mortals.
I upgraded DietPi to the ‘modern’ libcamera stack.
I used a RTSP streamer solution: Mediamtx.
I used DietPi Bullseye (not Buster), Bookworm was too new.
**VLC no longer**
Raspberry forum comment [here](https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=326936) about ‘de-vlcing’
and
Ubuntu question [here](https://askubuntu.com/questions/1359032/can-not-play-rtsp-streams-with-linux/1363113#1363113) which has these answers:
From this [Debian bug report](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=982299)
> 'We had to disable those plugins as liblivemedia constains non-free code. See #981439. Maybe that’s worth a NEWS entry and a note in the release-notes”
And from [VLC forums](https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&p=520633#p520527):
> “Debian VLC builds do not support RTSP by Debian policy decision"
**RTSP server**
So, I have switched to RTSP streaming solution [Mediamtx](https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx#) (rebranded RTSP-simple-server)
I tested first by installing Raspbian OS for lib camera and mediamtx, and all went very well.
My motioneye page immediately started showing the stream that had been dead for months.
I went back to DietPi - because I like to be slim.
**Libcamera on Dietpi**
This was little more tricky, as libcamera is not native on DietPi yet. [modern vs legacy](https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/5127).
I tried Bookworm - but that failed on some dependencies, and too new and tricky for me.
I went back to Buster.
A. install and enable libcamera [per this topic](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/libcamera-disable-legacy-camera-stack/6477)
essentially
> 1. Enable ‘8: RPi Camera’ at DietPi-Config/Display Options/
> 2. added ‘camera\_auto\_detect=1’ to the /boot/config.txt
> and comment out start\_x=1
> 3. Installed libcamera ‘apt install libcamera-apps-lite’
B. install [mediamtx](https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx#)
> apt install libfreetype6
> download and unpack mediamtx
C. set RTSP [RpiCamera](https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx#raspberry-pi-cameras) parameters
Edit the mediamtx.yml file to add the camera path…
> paths:
> stream:
> source: rpiCamera
I used path ‘stream’ rather than ‘cam’, as that already used by motioneye.
(The instructions are little obscure to understand the full URL based on paths.)
D. run Mediamtx as sudo.
> sudo ./mediamtx
E. add systemd service
F. view stream in motioneye
and spend many happy hours tweaking detection parameters! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [11 August 2023 07:41 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/replacing-raspivid-vlc-rtsp-with-libcamera-and-mediamtx/17636/2 "2023-08-11T07:41:30Z")
thx for sharing. I moved your post to `Community Tutorials`. Hope that’s fine with you.
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### Author:  [@acyanic](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/acyanic)
#### Post date: [11 August 2023 08:29 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/replacing-raspivid-vlc-rtsp-with-libcamera-and-mediamtx/17636/3 "2023-08-11T08:29:51Z")
Of course. It’s an honour to be promoted from problem to tutorial.
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### Author:  [@elevader](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/elevader)
#### Post date: [25 August 2023 07:31 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/replacing-raspivid-vlc-rtsp-with-libcamera-and-mediamtx/17636/4 "2023-08-25T07:31:29Z")
Nice, i dabbled around with mediamtx on raspiOS and a frigate server, mediamtx does a great job indeed.
Didn’t investigate though how to get mediamtx working with dietpi like you did, will give it a go now and follow your steps, thanks for the steps.
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### Author:  [@elevader](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/elevader)
#### Post date: [13 February 2024 13:49 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/replacing-raspivid-vlc-rtsp-with-libcamera-and-mediamtx/17636/5 "2024-02-13T13:49:44Z")
Had ssd die on me so i had to reinstall and went with dietpi instead raspi, heck of faster shutdowns and reboots this way.
It’s a rpi3 with bookworm armv8 diepti, i was getting some liberror, quick search led to [https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx/issues/1195#issuecomment-1343526773](https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx/issues/1195#issuecomment-1343526773) and installing `apt install libcamera0` which i think should be installed instead of `libcamera-apps-lite` and cam works.
Glad that dietpi can handle mediamtx and thanks for the quick info acyanic!
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### Author:  [@blueyshark](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/blueyshark)
#### Post date: [6 March 2024 13:37 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/replacing-raspivid-vlc-rtsp-with-libcamera-and-mediamtx/17636/6 "2024-03-06T13:37:04Z")
Hi there. Has anyone had success adding audio from a USB microphone to the RTSP stream? I’m not using motioneye as I don’t think it supports audio.
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### Author:  [@Jappe](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Jappe)
#### Post date: [2 May 2026 11:47 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/replacing-raspivid-vlc-rtsp-with-libcamera-and-mediamtx/17636/7 "2026-05-02T11:47:23Z")
I found this thread just by accident, I’m researching right now a bit about mediaMTX and libcamera.
You would need to mux the video and the audio first, e.g. with `ffmpeg`, and then you can serve this stream via mediaMTX.
Here an example for a v4l2 video device and sound is coming via alsa, mediaMTX is running on port 8554:
```auto
ffmpeg \
-f v4l2 -i /dev/video0 \
-f alsa -i hw:1,0 \
-c:v libx264 -preset veryfast -tune zerolatency \
-c:a aac -b:a 128k \
-f rtsp rtsp://localhost:8554/live
```