[Live-devel] Problem with VLC and wis-streamer

[Ross Finlayson]

>  > They should be getting sent to whichever server IP address was
>>  specified in the "rtsp://" URL, or - if a server domain name was
>>  specified instead - whatever IP address that domain name resolved to
>>  when it was looked up (via DNS).
>>
>>  RTSP/RTP cannot reliably be expected to work across NATs.  (If you're
>>  behind a NAT, then you're not really on the Internet.)  Instead, you
>>  can ask for RTP-over-TCP streaming, which should work.
>
>Ross, thanks for the reply.  So, it is a VLC bug correct?

No, I have no evidence that there's any bug at all (except perhaps 
with your NAT).

>Using VLC the RTCP RRs are being sent to the local IP of the server, as
>reported as the Content-Base in the DESCRIBE response and in the sdp.
>Is this just plain wrong or is it following the letter of the RFC?

No, this is correct.  So, why on Earth is the server returning a 
local NAT address in its SDP response??  Or is your NAT somehow 
translating the SDP description somehow? (unlikely)

You should mail us the debugging output from "openRTSP" (i.e., 
showing the complete RTSP protocol exchange), so we can figure out 
exactly what is going wrong.  Otherwise we can only speculate.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/