[Live-devel] Patch to RTSPClient to support Kasenna RTSP

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live.com
Wed Oct 20 11:59:19 PDT 2004


>>The show-stopper issue here is:
>>
>>>(a) The application/x-rtsp-mh would have to be permanently added and
>>>     DJ is fairly certain that this will break some VOD servers.
>>
>>Let's find out if this is really the case.  I.e., if the "Accept:"
>>header in a "DESCRIBE" request is
>>          "Accept: application/sdp, application/x-rtsp-mh\r\n"
>>(Note the order: "application/sdp" appearing before
>>"application/x-rtsp-mh"), then
>>          1/ Does this break any known RTSP server (that does proper
>>RTSP)?, and
>
>It breaks the first one I tried, the Kasenna :)
>
>The opposite order works.

OK, so does
         "Accept: application/x-rtsp-mh, application/sdp\r\n"
work on every known RTSP server, or are there some (non-Kasenna) RTSP 
servers that  choke on this?

Also:
>>         2/ Do Kasenna servers handle this properly, returning - in
>>their response - an "Content-Type:" header that contains
>>"application/x-rtsp-mh" for their hacked MPEG-2 streams, and
>>"application/sdp" for everything else?


	Ross Finlayson
	LIVE.COM
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