[Live-devel] h263/mpeg4 streaming to nokia phones?

Zoltan NAGY nagyz at nefty.hu
Thu Jul 27 02:05:01 PDT 2006


Emiliano Parasassi wrote:
> Zoltan NAGY wrote:
>   
>> Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>     
>>>> Hello list!
>>>>
>>>> I've been trying - unsuccessfully - to use testOnDemandRTSPServer,
>>>> testH263VideoStreamer and testMPEG4VideoStreamer to stream
>>>> videos to my Nokia N70.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Most likely, the problem is that your cellular phone provider does 
>>> not provide access to any RTSP/RTP (or any other) stream that comes 
>>> from outside its network.  Many (although not all) cell phone 
>>> providers are restrictive like this.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> ok, that's not the problem.
>> the telephone was able to connect to the server, but timed out.. at 
>> least the
>> telephone said that.
>>
>> the full log is available at http://nefty.hu/~nagyz/live-log.txt
>>
>> ideas?
>>
>> Zoltan
>>
>>     
>
> Are you sure that RTP/RTCP packets sent by server arrive to client? Most
> problably they are dropped by your provider. Without them nothing can be
> played. RTSP(tcp) is used only to start and control the stream and seems to work,
> but the true stream is in RTP(udp) packets, and RTCP(udp) is used to provide quality
> information of the RTP flow.
>   
well, I'm not sure.. and I'm not sure either how to check this..
any ideas?

if I call customer service, they'll laugh me in the face, I think, as 
they'll
have no idea what RTP/RTCP is.. :)

Thanks,

Zoltan


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