[Live-devel] Understanding testOnDemandRTSP

[Ross Finlayson]

>As you can see the file is opened TWICE !!! But then if i try to play it
>any further it opens the file only once. Only at the first instance it
>does a complete file read !?! Is it a bug at the client end ?

No.  For certain types of file - includung MPEG-4 Elementary Stream 
files - the server needs to first open the stream to get certain 
'configuration data' (that gets included in the stream's SDP 
description), before it opens the file a second time to actually 
stream it.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/