[Live-devel] Can't connect to BBC Radio WMA streams via rtsp

[Ross Finlayson]

>Sending request: SETUP rtsp://wmlive.bbc.co.uk/wms/bbc7/hi_s1/audio RTSP/1.0
>CSeq: 3
>Transport: RTP/AVP;unicast;client_port=33094-33095
>User-Agent: VLC media player (LIVE555 Streaming Media v2006.03.16)
>
>
>Received SETUP response: RTSP/1.0 400 Bad Request
>Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:25:45 GMT
>CSeq: 3
>Server: WMServer/9.1.1.3814
>Supported: com.microsoft.wm.srvppair, com.microsoft.wm.sswitch, 
>com.microsoft.wm.eosmsg, com.microsoft.wm.fastcache, 
>com.microsoft.wm.packetpairssrc, com.microsoft.wm.startupprofile

Blame Microsoft for this.  Their server ("WMServer") is not a 
standards-compliant RTSP server.  You will need to find out - from 
Microsoft - why their server is not handling our RTSP "SETUP" 
request.  (Good luck :-)

In any case, though, even if you could get Microsoft's server to work 
with our RTSP client, VLC would not be able to play this stream, 
because we do not handle the (Microsoft-proprietary) "x-asf-pf" and 
"x-wms-rtx" RTP payload formats, nor the codecs that these RTP 
payload formats carry.  (See 
<http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/faq.html#payload-format-not-supported>)

To summarize: Don't bother trying to play streams from a "WMServer". 
Use a non-Microsoft server instead.

-- 

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