[Live-devel] RTSP url

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live.com
Thu Sep 1 09:04:41 PDT 2005


>Perhaps it would be a better idea to put
>RTP over RTSP option as the default.

Absolutely not.  RTP should be streamed over UDP.  RTP-over-RTSP is 
just an accommodation for people with broken networks.

Media players - such as VLC - automatically fail over to 
RTP-over-RTSP if they don't receive RTP-over-UDP within a certain 
period of time.  People running the command-line "openRTSP" 
application, however, are supposed to be more sophisticated, and know 
what their networks are, and are not, doing.


	Ross Finlayson
	LIVE.COM
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