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

[Ross Finlayson]

>I think you're making this way too complicated.

No, your NAT is making this way too complicated!


>   Simple question:  As
>per the RFC, should the RTCP RRs go to the IP in the original rtsp://...
>or to the IP reported as the Content-Base

The latter.


>  (due to the horrible, nasty,
>abominable NATing the private address not the public address is returned
>here and in the sdp).

Here's the problem:

>Received DESCRIBE response: RTSP/1.0 200 OK
>CSeq: 2
>Date: Tue, Dec 11 2007 01:15:50 GMT
Content-Base: rtsp://192.168.10.55:8554//

But why is this happening??  That's my question.  How could the 
server possibly know about the private IP address 192.168.10.55?  I 
don't see how it can, so I don't see how it could be putting that 
address in the "Content-Base:" header in the RTSP "DESCRIBE" 
response.  So, is your NAT box intercepting and translating the 
contents of the "Content-Base:" header?  WTF??

Suggestion: You might be able to overcome your brain-damaged NAT box 
by putting a domain name, rather than an IP address, in the original 
"rtsp://" URL.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/