[Live-devel] Can this be done reasonably?

[Dermot McGahon]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 22:49:31 +0200, Derk-Jan Hartman <hartman at videolan.org>  
wrote:

>> 2) I would like to send RTSP compliant feeds.
> VLC can do this as long as you don't do trickplay etc. It should work  
> well for live streams

How are we (collective we), doing on this? This being trickplay.

I'm willing to add the support to RTSPClient.cpp and to the mplayer
glue code.

The Kasenna server I'm using already has support for trickplay so it's
unlikely that I would get around to implementing LIVE.COM RTSP server
trickplay support.

One slight tricky part is that the VOD server does not keep track of
where in the stream it is. This means I'll have to keep track of stream
position from within the client while pausing and provide that NTP in
the subsequent PLAY command. No big deal, I hope, but I've yet to code
it.

I'm going to get to this over the next week or two and will revert
with patches assuming that they are welcome.

I have implemented raw udp multicast receive capability for mplayer.
I'm in the process of cleaning up the patches for submission. It seems
to be working pretty well.

I also have the Kasenna RTSP support working. Derk-Jan and myself have
been discussing this on and off and will improve on this (make it
generic and hopefully acceptable) before sending in patches. We think
there is an acceptable way to support it without messing up the existing
code.



Dermot.
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