[Live-devel] real servers

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live555.com
Mon Sep 4 08:29:30 PDT 2006


>I can see from the live page that live doesnot support
>real servers, beacause real servers use RDT for
>transport . However unintentionally I did stream a mp3
>file from an open source real server and it worked.

That's because this stream must have used standard RTP, not RDT.

Receiving from RealNetworks servers will usually work provided that 
the stream is not using RealNetworks' proprietary codecs.  Those are 
usually the only streams that get sent using RDT.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/


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