[Live-devel] RTP-over-TCP streaming (Noam Camiel)

Noam Camiel noamatari at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 25 18:45:39 PDT 2007


Ross Finlayson:
> In the meantime, if you want to use RTP-over-TCP streaming with our 
> server, then you should *not* send RTSP commands as 'keep alive' 
> indicators.  Instead, you *must* send RTCP "RR" packets.  Note that 
> RTCP is a *mandatory* part of the RTP specification, so if your 
> client does not send RTCP "RR" packets, then it is not in compliance 
> with the standard, and you cannot expect a standards-compliant server 
> to work with it.


Absolutely, and this is what I meant in my previous post. Sorry if I wasn't clear -
adding the "timeout=80" was not necessary as the RTCP "RR" packets serve
as keep alive.  Only difference is now I take care of RTSP messages during play.



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