[Live-devel] WM RTSP support for live streams

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

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And now the correct one....

On 25 aug 2005, at 15:26, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:

> /me bounces head to wall
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> On 25 aug 2005, at 15:21, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
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>> On 24 aug 2005, at 03:22, Ross Finlayson wrote:
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>>>> Anyways. like i said in the other mail. If we keep it in  
>>>> RTSPClient,
>>>> then it has to be corrected on the first SETUP call, but by that  
>>>> time
>>>> it is quite possible the endtime as already been retrieved by the
>>>> application from the mediasession.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Conceivably, yes, but for the two clients that I looked at just  
>>> now - "openRTSP" and "VLC" - "session->playEndTime()" is not  
>>> called until after the RTSP "PLAY" (and "MPlayer" doesn't check  
>>> "playEndTime()" at all).  So I don't think that this is worth  
>>> worrying about.
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> OK, I have made a patch to support live MS RTSP broadcasts. Some  
>> information about MS RTSP
>>
>> 1: When using VLC, make sure your international settings are set  
>> to a country that uses . as the float separator. (This is the  
>> range/radix bug discussed on the list before)
>> 2: Set vlc rtsp and mms buffer to 5000
>> 3: Set vlc rtsp to TCP, seems to work much better
>>
>> Test URLs
>> On Demand: rtsp://media2.hosting.nob.nl/nob/test.wmv
>> Live: rtsp://streams01.hosting.nob.nl/test
>>
>> The on demand stream should already work in 0.8.2 if you use the  
>> instructions mentioned above.
>> Patch for live streams attached. It's not really nice, but it works.
>>
>> Besides this i have found that RTSP streams stop after about 2:20  
>> or so, when using VLC.
>> I have made ethereal captures from both VLC and WMP10. Both with  
>> the On Demand sample.
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>> WMP10: http://sidekick.student.utwente.nl/videolan/wm10.eth
>> VLC: http://sidekick.student.utwente.nl/videolan/ 
>> vlctimeoutfiltered.eth
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>> It seems that WMServer doesn't understand RTCP (like VLC server  
>> basically). I think the WMP10 is sending an empty GET_PARAMETER at  
>> 120 or so secs into the capture (i believe this corresponds with  
>> about the 60s point of the stream) to indicate liveliness to the  
>> server.
>>
>> DJ
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