[Live-devel] keep-alive in RTSPServer

[Ross Finlayson]

>I'm testing the new GREAT feature which permits to drop down a RTSP
>connection after n seconds whitout keep-alive in RTSPServer.
>Now keep-alive is every RTSP message that client sends to server,
>but what do you think about using received RTCP packets from client
>as keep-alive?

Yes, that will probably get implemented (as an option) sometime in the future.

The current feature (optional keep-alives based on received RTSP messages) 
was something that was implemented to support a customer that is using 
Amino settop boxes.  (These are RTSP clients that request raw-UDP (MPEG 
Transport) streaming - not RTP - and so don't sent RTCP packets.  However, 
they do periodically send RTSP "GET_PARAMETER" messages; these can now be 
used as a 'keep-alive'.)


	Ross Finlayson
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