[Live-devel] Live streams from media Server

[Peter Maersk-Moller]

Hi.

I noticed that the mediaServer can stream (one) LIVE TS framed stream 
from a fifo, though it open and closes the fifo a couple of times before 
forwarding the stream. Something like

   $ mkfifo fifo.ts
   $ live555MediaServer &
   $ while true; do get_ts_stream >fifo ; done

Not perfect and not scalable, but it works, for one client

     $ vlc rtsp://myserver:8554/fifo.ts

That said, if changes are made to the live555 source so it can read from 
a pipe/socket or join a multicast stream or simply listen on a port (ie 
don't close the socket/pipe and keep track of 188 byte bounderies), will 
the maitainer of live555 be interested in adding the code to the library ?

Kind regards

Peter Maersk-Moller