[Live-devel] viewing the data currently being streamed

[Ross Finlayson]

>I tried running the test programs testWAVAudioStreamer/testmp3streamer.
>
>While it keeps streaming the test file in an endless loop, I tried to see
>the streamed content by
>
>1) Opening the generated URL rtsp://x.x.x.x:8554/testStream in VLC(VLC hangs)
>2) Running the command : OpenRTSP rtsp://x.x.x.x:8554/testStream(does
>nothing - just freezes)

They work OK for me.

Remember that the "test*Streamer" applications stream using IP 
multicast.  Therefore, the receiving application(s) must be on a 
network that can receive IP multicast packets from the sender - e.g., 
on the same LAN.  If you are running the receiving applications on a 
separate network from the sender application, then perhaps you don't 
have IP multicast routing between the networks?

If you want to stream between two networks that don't support IP 
multicast routing, then use unicast streaming instead - run 
"testOnDemandRTSPServer".


>The program testmp3Receiver was able to display the data sent by
>testmp3streamer on stdout(heap of funny characters).

That's correct - because the received data is output to standard output :-)

If you want to record the received data into a file, run
         testMP3Receiver > data.mp3


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