diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 207c28226..165bdb942 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ ver 0.21.26 (not yet released)
   - iso9660: support seeking
   - zzip: fix crash on corrupt ZIP file
 * decoder
+  - ffmpeg: remove "rtsp://" from the list of supported protocols
   - sndfile: fix lost samples at end of file
 
 ver 0.21.25 (2020/07/06)
diff --git a/src/input/plugins/FfmpegInputPlugin.cxx b/src/input/plugins/FfmpegInputPlugin.cxx
index 09597e774..3cb8bd151 100644
--- a/src/input/plugins/FfmpegInputPlugin.cxx
+++ b/src/input/plugins/FfmpegInputPlugin.cxx
@@ -140,7 +140,6 @@ FfmpegInputStream::Seek(offset_type new_offset)
 static constexpr const char *ffmpeg_prefixes[] = {
 	"gopher://",
 	"rtp://",
-	"rtsp://",
 	"rtmp://",
 	"rtmpt://",
 	"rtmps://",