[Live-devel] Another kasenna specific issue

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

On 02 nov 2004, at 22:31, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> a MPEG1 RTSP/VoD/UDP session from kasenna returns the attached SETUP 
>> response.
>> The problem is that the message contains data, but does not have the 
>> Content-Lenght header set as required per the RTSP RFC
>> This confuses liveMedia which in the next read (Usually a PLAY 
>> response) first parses the remaining Data from the previous response.
>
> I don't know if there's anything we can do about this.  The code needs 
> to know exactly how much data to read from the TCP socket (to get the 
> entire SETUP response), otherwise it'll block if it tries to read to 
> much.  (The socket is blocking.)  Normally, the code uses the 
> "Content-Length:" header to figure out how much more data to read, 
> but, without this, the only way you can do this is by parsing the 
> Kasenna bullshit response data, reading one byte at a time until 
> you're sure that you've read all the data that you want (and don't try 
> to read any more than this).
>
> So, if you can figure out how to parse the Kasenna bullshit data to 
> read the exact amount of data in the response, then that will work.  
> Otherwise, you're SOL.

I was kinda afraid you would say this. Since this is a MPEG1 and MP3 
specific issue of kasenna, it doesn't really matter. it can be dealt 
with at a later time.

(At least now we know the cause :) )

DJ

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