zmc send rtsp doesn't appear to have username and password

[PX03AFK]

I'm having a problem getting ZM 1.37.71 to connect to a Foscam FI9912P and to try and get a better handle on the problem I used strace to run a command line instance - zmc -m 5. Within the trace output I can see a sendto message which has the Source Path of the camera but the username and password are not in the string being sent. I've noticed one or two comments about the possibility of a problem in this area and advice to put the complete detail in the Source Path and leave the Username and Password blank but if I try to do that ZM merely moves the Username and Password to their own fields.
Should I expect zmc to run OK from the command line?

[connortechnology]

zmc should run fine from command line. As root or the web user. Weird things can happen if two are runing at the same time.

The username and password will be communicated separately. You should see the username go by, but not the password. Most cameras use DIGEST auth.

We move the password to it's own field because people like to put strange characters in the password but not url-encode them.

[PX03AFK]

I was anticipating seeing the rtsp string the same as it is used when running ffmpeg directly and I hadn't apprecaited the nuance of DIGEST. Thanks for the explanation.

[connortechnology]

Well, we just hand off the whole url to ffmpeg... but we have to build it on the fly with url-encoding. I would expect the same strings with either... I havn't looked into the ffmpeg code.

So ffmpeg on the command line works, but the same url in ZM doesn't... hmm....

Are there any weird characters in the password?

Does it work with vlc?

[connortechnology]

Also with debugging turned on zmc will log what it is sending...