[Live-devel] streaming 'redirection'

[Ross Finlayson]

>I'm evaluating liveMedia library in order to use it in the followig
>situation:
>I need to control a media-server from my application, and putting an
>RTSP client inside it, looks like a good, standard and easy choice (the
>"easy" part thanks to your RTSPClient class).
>But my app is "3rd party call control" one, so I need kind a "third
>party media control"; i.e. what I need is the media server to deliver
>audio/video streams to a DIFERENT host than the one which is asking
>those streams as an RTSP client.
>
>I've browsed liveMedia sources and found the following symbol:
>
>RTSP_ALLOW_CLIENT_DESTINATION_SETTING
>
>with this clear explanation from Ross
>http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2004-February/000324.html
>
>This makes pretty clear I have to recompile "libliveMedia.lib" with this
>flag enabled, in order to achieve my goal. Obviously, I also have to
>re-link it in videoLAN (this is the Media Server I'm using).
>
>Here's where the question comes in: do I have to change RTSPClient's
>class behavior too ?
>I mean: do I have to change it to include the "destination" parameter
>into the "Transport:" line ?

Yes.  I think that's the only change you will need to make to "RTSPClient".
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/