[Live-devel] Axis camera

[Ross Finlayson]

>Cha Gascon wrote:
>>I can connect and play the stream but after a while, it will stop 
>>streaming. When it actually stops is random, sometimes a few 
>>frames, sometimes after getting a lot of frames.
>The axis camera sends a "BYE" after some time. I do not know whether 
>it is a bug or a feature... but for sure it is off-standard (the 
>axis server is not live555).

No, the RTCP "BYE" message is a standard.  If the camera is sending 
this, then it's explicitly telling the client that it's ending the 
stream.  So the question now becomes: Why is the Axis server choosing 
to end the stream?  The only reason I can think of is that perhaps it 
is timing out because it thinks that the client is inactive.  But the 
client ("openRTSP") sends RTCP "RR" reports, and these should be 
received by the server (because you're using RTP/RTCP-over-TCP), and 
the server should be using these as a sign of client liveness.

So I think your next step should be to ask Axis why their server is 
ending the stream (by sending RTCP "BYE" packets).  (Because the Axis 
camera is not our product, this is not something that we can really 
help you with.)
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/