[Live-devel] multiple-file support for on-demand-RTSPStreamer

[Ross Finlayson]

>I am working on a unicast streaming solution for wav/pcm audio files.
>The streamer is supposed to read from multiple files, depending the
>requested files by the clients.
>
>The features that I plan to have are as follows:
>
>The RTSP Server should be able to create severmediasession with multiple
>mediasubsessions (each corresponding to a wav file), e.g using a playlist.

Playlists are usually (and properly) handled by clients, not servers. 
Servers should not have to worry about streaming multiple files (one 
after the other) as if they were a single file.  If you really want 
to do this, create a single file - at the server - that consists of 
all the original media concatenated together.

But anyway, playlists should really be handled by clients, not 
servers.  (All clients that I know about have some sort of 'playlist' 
feature.)

>The RTSP Server should be able to announce whatever media it has, e.g.
>all the wav files exist.

As I noted earlier in the week (in response to someone else's 
question), there is nothing in the RTSP protocol that supports this - 
sorry.