[Live-devel] Paths in RTSP requests

[Cristiano Belloni]

Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> What I'd like to do:
>>
>> MPEG4 streams: rtsp://host/video/MPEG4/stream[number]
>> H263 streams: rtsp://host/video/H263/stream[number]
>>
>> Please note the filenames pathnames are "virtual", i.e. they don't
>> exist. Every stream is associated to a live source read from a
>> configuration file, and it has no correspondent in the file system
>>     
>
> Then why bother?  I'm sure you could (somehow) hack the RTSP server 
> code to do what you want to do, but why not just use a character 
> other than "/" in the RTSP URLs - e.g.,
> 	rtsp://host/video:MPEG4:stream[number]
> ?  This would require no change to the existing code.
>   
To achieve URL-uniformity with existing IP cameras, for example. Nearly 
all of them use URLs like that.

Cristiano.

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