[Live-devel] rtsp and keeping alive connection with rtcp packets

[Ross Finlayson]

>Hi
>
>I am working with an axis camera which streams mpeg4 video.
>When I try to receive the video with live555, It works fine for 
>about 60 sec, and then the axis server sends a goodbye message. (the 
>protocl is RTSP // UDP/RTP)
>
>Then I tried it with their web interface (which uses rtsp too), and 
>I can see a RTCP packet every 10 sec called "receiver report / 
>source description" from my computer to the axis server. If I block 
>this packet with my firewall, the server stop sending video, so I 
>assume this is required to keep alive the connection.
>
>Why doesn't live555 sends this type of packet to keep the connection alive ?

It does.  I don't know why your camera would not be receiving these packets.

Please try instead using "openRTSP" 
<http://www.live555.com/openRTSP/> as your client.  Please send us 
the diagnostic output (printed by "openRTSP") so we can (perhaps) 
figure out what is going wrong.
-- 

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