@undeadko, definitely not being an idiot. Anything video is hard.
As you know, Image.Video functions are idiomatic wrappers around the excellent evision library which is an interface to OpenCV.
It looks like authenticated streams are supported when using a camera that supports a streaming protocol, most likely RTSP. I found this conversation on Stackoverflow. Hopefully that gives you a path to try.
Feel free to keep the conversation going here, or open a GitHub discussion.
