[Live-devel] Incorrect DESCRIBE response

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live555.com
Fri Nov 17 02:30:20 PST 2006


>I'm using mplayer with live555, my problem is that the streaming
>server used has a bad RTSP implementation.
>
>In the DESCRIBE response it says that the traffic will be RTP/AVP but
>then in the SETUP it says MP2T/UDP. The problem is that Mplayer is not
>able to choose the correct demuxer and also it begins to throw away
>the packets (Mplayer is able to play a mpeg-ts in local file) .
>
>My question is how can I modify live555 code to force to always decide
>that the traffic will be mpeg2-ts (MP2T).

As a general rule, I prefer not to add hacks to the "LIVE555 
Streaming Media" code to support broken, non-standard servers (or 
clients).

However, please try running
	openRTSP -V
on the server's "rtsp://" URL, and post the output to the list, so I 
can see exactly what the server is doing.
-- 

Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/


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