[Live-devel] server-initiated messages in RTSP client

[Ross Finlayson]

>I'm looking for a way to handle server-initiated RTSP messages such as
>GET_PARAMETER in VLC using Live555 for it's RTSP client.  As far as I can
>tell from looking at the code, Live555 only handles server responses, but I
>could easily have missed something among the the client-initiated
>GET_PARAMETER code.
>
>Does Live555 client handle any server-initiated messages?

No (and such functionality could not be added until the RTSP client 
implementation is rewritten to use asynchrous I/O).


>P.S.	It's an RTSP standard.  (RFC2326, sec 1.1, "Both an RTSP server and
>client can issue requests."

Yes, however having a client handle server-initiated requests is 
optional functionality, and few - if any - RTSP client 
implementations actually handle this.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/