[Live-devel] two processes using the library

[Karim Belem]

Thiago A. Corrêa wrote:

>>Both processes on will be on the server side in my case. One will be
>>taking care of the TCP part (DESCRIBE, SETUP and so on) communicating
>>with the client and the other will be sending the data to the client
>>(the RTP part which is UDP). In the mean time the two processes are
>>communicating through a proprietary protocol which is UDP. There are not
>>threads but different independant processes.
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>I guess Ross will have to answer the above part... I don't know if Live will
>let you do that :(
>I'm also kind of newbie to RTP/RTSP, I kind of just use it and it works
>*smile*
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I need your help for that, Ross.

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>>According to what you say i should not have a problem. But since my two
>>processes are communicating will it be ok for me? They do not use live
>>to communicate.
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>Yeah, provided Live will allow you to do that without changing it's
>internals... :(
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>>I also want these two processes to be tied to one stream. So each stream
>>will be depending on them. If i shut down the stream they will also shut
>>down. Which means there have to be something to make the relation
>>between these processes using live. And i think this is where i will be
>>in trouble. Is that right?
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>Upon connection on the TCP part you could then fire up the other process.
>There is an article somewhere in the msdn.microsoft.com just about that, in
>case your platform is Windows.
>Under windows lookup for CreatePipe(), DuplicateHandle() and CreateProcess()
>Under unix you could use inetd (or something like that) to start the second
>app as the first tries to connect to it, but I really don't know how inetd
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We will find out how it can be done. By the way i am on Unix platform 
using Solaris.

>works :(
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>Regards,
>   Thiago A. Corrêa
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Thanks again Thiago.

Regards,

Karim.