[Live-devel] Multicast Q

[Leary, Brent]

Ross,
Are their any major differences in functionality provided by
testOnDemandRTSPServer and the Live555 Media Server?
 
Thanks,
-Brent


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From: live-devel-bounces at ns.live555.com
[mailto:live-devel-bounces at ns.live555.com] On Behalf Of Ross Finlayson
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:56 AM
To: LIVE555 Streaming Media - development & use
Subject: Re: [Live-devel] Multicast Q



	I am using the 'testOnDemandRTSPServer' to support unicast
streaming of MPEG transport streams to a PC running VLC.  This is
working with no problems.  When I started the 'Live555 Media Server' was
unavailable. Now I am interested in adding multicast support to the RTSP
Server I'm running. From reading your responses to prior posts to this
message board, neither 'testOnDemandRTSPServer' nor 'Live555 Media
Server' support multicast playback (I'm assuming this is still the
case).  In order to support mutlicast, 'testMPEG1or2VideoStreamer' would
have to be integrated/started to allow the running RTSP Server to
perform mutlicast playback.  Is this correct or has multicast support
been incorporated into an RTSP Server?


Yes, our RTSP server implementation supports multicast streams.  This is
demonstrated in the various "test*Streamer" demo applications.  E.g.,
You can demonstrate this by uncommenting the line
//#define IMPLEMENT_RTSP_SERVER 1
in "testProgs/testMPEG1or2VideoStreamer.cpp".


	Does the existing RTSP Server & streamer software support the
RFC's 2326's multicast example (below)?


Yes.


	  If it does would it be able to handle having the client set
the multicast IP destination & port in the setup command? 


No, because that is a silly idea.  It's the role of the server, not
clients, to choose whether - and with what address/port - a stream is
multicast.  See
http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2007-February/006273.html


	Is there a client already available that supports having the
client setup the multicast destination & port


No.
-- 

Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/
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