[Live-devel] live.com streams in xine

[Stephen Birch]

Ross Finlayson:

While googling for streaming technology, I came across the
following post from you at http://www.live.com from March 2004:

> For an open source, RTSP-compliant media player client, I would
> definitely focus on "VLC" or "MPlayer".  (In contrast, the Xine
> developers seem generally clueless about RTSP/RTP, and refuse to use
> the LIVE.COM code to implement it.  Instead, they're trying to write
> their own implementation from scratch in C.)
> 
> Between "VLC" and "MPlayer", I personally prefer VLC, because it seems
> to perform a bit better than MPlayer, and I personally find the VLC
> developers a bit more accessible and somewhat easier to deal with.  As
> you noted, both of these use the "LIVE.COM Streaming Media" libraries
> to implement RTSP.

I am interested to know if this is still a problem in xine?

Since I believe the xine developers are also "a bit more accessible
and somewhat easier to deal with" :-) I would like to see if there is
anything I can do to fix xine so it plays nicely with the live.com
based streamers.

I am cross posting this email to live-devel and to xine-devel to
solicit feedback to discover if I need to do work on xine or if I am
simply out of date <grin>?  I would very much like to update xine so
it works with live.com streams.

Siggi ... I have been out of xine-devel for a while so if this has
already been addressed please let me know.

Steve