[Live-devel] PATCH RTSP KeepAlive Support.

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

On 14-mrt-2006, at 22:35, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>>> OK, I've now released a new version (2006.01.27) of the code that
>>> updates "RTSPClient" to:
>>>   - allow the "parameterName" parameter to "getMediaSessionParameter
>>> ()" to be NULL
>>>   - add a "setUserAgentString()" member function, to allow  
>>> clients to
>>>     specify an alternative string for "User-Agent:" headers
>>>   - parse the optional "timeout" parameter in response "Session:"
>>> headers,
>>>     and added a "sessionTimeoutParameter()" member function to
>>> retrieve it.
> [...]
>> I'm not sure what happened to Glen, but i'd like to have this
>> implemented before 0.8.5
>> Ross, do you know the VERSION_INT for this version of liveMedia ?
>
> I don't know for sure, but 2006.01.27 is 1138348800, and 2006.01.24
> (the date of the previous release) is 1138089600.
>
> So, "#ifdef"ing your code to apply only if
> "LIVEMEDIA_LIBRARY_VERSION_INT > 1138250000" should work.
>
> (BTW, at some point in the future I'd like to get rid of most of
> these version "#ifdef"s in "livedotcom.cpp" by saying that LIVE555
> library versions earlier than a certain date are simply not  
> supported by VLC.)

Linux distributions are usually much more flexible then Mac OSX and  
Windows releases, and we need and want to account for that. I would  
prefer to keep each ifdef for quite some time. They aren't really  
bothersome in the VLC code, and VERY helpful to distro maintainers.

DJ

BTW. i just added a ticket to rename the VLC liveMedia module.