[Live-devel] RTSP over UDP...

[Marian Durkovic]

> The reason why these clients don't use RTP is that they support 
> receiving MPEG Transport Streams only (not any kind of Elementary 
> Stream).  MPEG Transport Streams contain their own timestamps, so 
> their designers felt (rightly or wrongly) that they don't need the 
> extra overhead of a RTP header in each packet.

I'm just surprised that their customers haven't suceeded to make them
release a software update with RTP support - since there are many situations 
where raw UDP does not work properly. 

In VoIP industry, the RTP header overhead is (relatively) much bigger - and
yet noone tries to use raw UDP...
 

	With kind regards,

		M.

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