[Live-devel] Streaming past a firewall.

[Ross Finlayson]

>I'm attempting to stream outside my firewall.

Your problem isn't really that you have a firewall; it's that you 
have NAT (network address translation).  As I noted a couple of months ago:

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Unfortunately RTSP doesn't work well over NATs, because of all of the 
explicit port numbers and IP addresses that are present in RTSP 
requests and response.

However, if your client requests RTP-over-RTSP (i.e., receiving RTP 
packets over the RTSP TCP connection), then it will probably be able 
to receive the stream, provided that it is able to make the initial 
RTSP connection to the server.

So, I suggest that you configure your client to request RTP-over-RTSP 
streaming.
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>Finally, there is about 3 seconds of buffering on the receiving end. 
>Any way to shorten or eliminate that?

No, not in QuickTime Player - this delay is built in to it.

Instead, I recommend VLC, which is a superior player anyway.


	Ross Finlayson
	Live Networks, Inc. (LIVE555.COM)
	<http://www.live555.com/>