[Live-devel] RTP to RTCP for Helix

[tjc103 at ecs.soton.ac.uk]

Quoting Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com>:

> >Hello,
> >I use the VLC of videolan.org as Encoder for Live streams. These
> >streams are then sent as RTP. These Live streams shall be sent to a
> >helix server. Unfortunately, the VLC cannot make any RTCP packages.
>
> That's because VLC - when used as a RTP *transmitter* - uses a
> quick-and-dirty, custom implementation of RTP (*not* the "LIVE555
> Streaming Media" code) that does not include RTCP.  (VLC uses the
> LIVE555 code only when it is used as a receiver/player.)

Just out of curiosity, does VLS suffer from this problem as well.

> >These are needed by the helix server.
> >The Helixcommuntity wrote me:
> >"You could write a program that receives and relays VLC's RTP
> >packets to the server and generates appropriate RTCP packets and
> >sends those, too. "
> >Is this possible with live libraries?
>
> Perhaps.  But it would be much better (and probably simpler) to use
> our own RTSP/RTP server implementation, with FFMPEG (e.g.) used as an
> encoder.
> --
>
> Ross Finlayson
> Live Networks, Inc.
> http://www.live555.com/