# Install openrtsp with Homebrew

Command-line RTSP client. Version 2026.07.23 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-23.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:openrtsp
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install openrtsp
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:openrtsp
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2026.07.23
- **Source summary:** Command-line RTSP client
- **Homepage:** <http://www.live555.com/openRTSP>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-23T18:45:21Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- MPEG2TransportStreamIndexer (alias)
- live555HLSProxy (alias)
- live555MediaServer (alias)
- live555ProxyServer (alias)
- mikeyParse (alias)
- openRTSP (alias)
- playSIP (alias)
- registerRTSPStream (alias)
- sapWatch (alias)
- vobStreamer (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2026.07.23
## Project history and usage

openRTSP is the command-line RTSP client distributed with LIVE555 Streaming Media.

### Project history

The official openRTSP page describes it as a command-line program for opening, streaming, receiving, and optionally recording media streams specified by RTSP URLs.

The official source-code section says openRTSP uses LIVE555 library modules and that its own source files, openRTSP.cpp and playCommon.cpp, are bundled in the LIVE555 Streaming Media source package under testProgs.

### Adoption history

The supplied package metadata records a Homebrew formula. LIVE555's official page says its libraries are used for open multimedia streaming protocols and can be used to build RTSP clients and servers.

### How it is used

The basic documented workflow is openRTSP followed by an rtsp:// URL. The program sends RTSP DESCRIBE, retrieves SDP, sets up understood audio or video subsessions, plays them, and writes received data to output files.

Documented options cover authentication, transport choices, recording containers, periodic file output, trick-play options, and diagnostic behavior.

### Why package nerds care

openRTSP is small but revealing package material because installing it exposes the LIVE555 utility suite and the practical RTSP/RTP surface area used for cameras, test servers, and stream debugging.

### Timeline

- 1998: RTSP 1.0 was published as protocol context for tools such as openRTSP.
- LIVE555 Streaming Media era: openRTSP is bundled as source in the LIVE555 testProgs directory.
- 2026: the supplied metadata records openrtsp as a Homebrew package.

### Related projects

- Related LIVE555 programs include playSIP, LIVE555 Media Server, LIVE555 Proxy Server, LIVE555 HLS Proxy, vobStreamer, and testRTSPClient.

### Sources

- <http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/>
- <http://www.live555.com/openRTSP/>
- source_facts.executables
- source_facts.package-manager


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/openrtsp.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/openrtsp.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph