[Live-devel] RTSP source for VDR

[Ross Finlayson]

>I'm currently developping a plugin for VDR (please see www.cadsoft.de/vdr/ for
>more info) to add a new source (e.g. input device). As my FAI is providing
>TV-broadcast through a RTSP server, I'm working on such interface 
>with the help
>of LiveMedia library.

[...]

>Steps 1-6 seem to work OK, even the last playing call but I don't know how to
>get the TS data through a file descriptor.

You don't.  If your incoming TS data is coming from a RTSP stream, 
then it will be coming in on a LIVE555 "MediaSource" object - in your 
case "subsession->readSource()".  To receive this data, you must feed 
it to a "MediaSink" object, and call sink->startPlaying().  See the 
"openRTSP" code ("playCommon.cpp") for examples of this; "openRTSP" 
uses "FileSink" objects to store the incoming data.

I.e., you must write an appropriate "MediaSink" object to handle the 
incoming TS data.  (However, if you plan to just store this in a 
file, then you can use most of the "openRTSP" code as is.  Or, you 
can just run "openRTSP" with the "-v" option, to get the incoming TS 
data written to 'stdout'.)
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/