[Live-devel] Does openRTSP support Windows Media Server?

[Ross Finlayson]

>I ran the latest version of openRTSP to retrieve WMV stream from 
>WMS, but only got
>wrong content. Although the messages in the mailing-list says that 
>WMS does not
>comform to RTSP standard, VLC with live555 (version of 2007.02.20) 
>works fine with
>WMS.
>How could VLC do it well? What is the difference in usage between VLC and
>openRTSP?

"VLC" decodes and plays the received audio/video data.  "openRTSP" 
writes the received audio/video data into files.  However, because 
these files contain 'raw' audio and video data, without appropriate 
file headers, a media player may then not be able to recognize and 
play the files.
-- 

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