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

[Ross Finlayson]

>The "server" doesn't have a public IP.
>It is behind a NAT (behind a consumer DSL modem) and doesn't even know
>what it is NATed to.

Yes, that's the problem.  In general, you can't expect a RTSP sorry 
to work if it's behind a NAT.  The IETF is working on overcoming 
this, but for now that's just the way it is.  Sorry.  (If only the 
RTSP *client* is behind a NAT - the setup that I originally thought 
you had - then that has more chance of working.)


>   The rtsp requests are being sent to the DSL
>modem's IP.  Not my choice of setup but what I have been dealt.  The
>joke is it almost works.  By disabling timeouts it sort of works.

Yes, count yourself lucky that it works at all.  (You could also 
remove the "Content-Base:" header from the RTSP "OK" response 
("RTSPServer.cpp", line 511).)  And of course, RTP-over-TCP, which, 
right now, is the highest-probability way to get RTSP/RTP across NATs.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/