# Viewing IP Camera on Test Player

**URL:** <https://community.wowza.com/t/viewing-ip-camera-on-test-player/51407>\
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine\
**Created:** [June 2, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/viewing-ip-camera-on-test-player/51407 "2018-06-02T17:07:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![ian\_per](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/13edae/32.png) [@ian\_per](https://community.wowza.com/u/ian_per)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/viewing-ip-camera-on-test-player/51407/1 "2018-06-02T17:07:43Z")

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I have followed the guide at [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-re-stream-video-from-an-ip-camera-rtsp-rtp-re-streaming](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-re-stream-video-from-an-ip-camera-rtsp-rtp-re-streaming) to configure a TrendNet TV-IP316PI. When I try to view the stream through a test player, all I get is black screen with the status of “playing” with no actual video.

I have sucessfully viewed the video stream from the camera using VLC, using the rstp://host:port/url syntax. The following custom URL suffixes all work with this camera “/mpeg4”, “/Streaming/Channels/1”, “/Streaming/Channels/2” displaying the different resolutions on the video output.

Below are the last few lines from the server console.

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Monaco; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff} span.s1 {font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures}

INFO server comment - LiveStreamPacketizerCupertino.endChunkTS[live/_definst_/rtsp.stream]: Add chunk: id:10 mode:TS[H264,NOAUDIO] a/v/k:0/180/3 duration:9000

INFO server comment - MPEGDashWriterHandler.createChunkM4S[live/_definst_/rtsp.stream]: Add chunk: id:152788403 type:m4s\_mux a/v/k:0/180/3 duration:9000

INFO server comment - MPEGDashWriterHandler.createChunkM4S[live/_definst_/rtsp.stream]: Add chunk: id:152788403 type:m4s\_video v/k:180/3 duration:9000

INFO server comment - LiveStreamPacketizerCupertino.endChunkTS[live/_definst_/rtsp.stream]: Add chunk: id:11 mode:TS[H264,NOAUDIO] a/v/k:0/240/4 duration:12000

Why can I not view the video output through the test player?

Please ask any relevant questions and I will follow up with answers, thank you.