[Live-devel] New "LIVE555 Streaming Media" release - works around QuickTime Player bug

[Ross Finlayson]

If you are using our RTSP server implementation, and anticipate 
having QuickTime Player as your client, then you should upgrade to 
the latest version (2007.05.22) of the "LIVE555 Streaming Media" 
software (or, the latest version of the "live555MediaServer" 
binaries, if you are using those).

It turns out that recent versions of QuickTime Player have a bug that 
causes it (in some circumstances) to not send RTCP "RR" packets. 
Because our RTSP server (like many others') uses incoming RTCP "RR" 
packets as a stream 'keep-alive', this bug was causing streams to 
time out.

The latest version of the LIVE555 code contains a work-around that 
bypasses the QuickTime Player problem.  (Thanks to Dave Singer et al 
at Apple for tracking down this problem.)
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/