[Live-devel] Question about RTSP paths

[Guillaume Ferry]

Thanks Ron,

Indeed I'm using a Unix-flavored system :)

I'll check this out !

Best regards,

Guillaume.

2008/10/14 Guillaume Ferry <guiluge at gmail.com>

> Hi there,
>
> As an older thread, found in March 2008 archives, an alternative syntax
> exists for RTSP urls.
>
> Here is a quote :
>
> //////
>
> >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.
> //////
>
> I wanted to verify this point, and it doesn't seem to work for me, or maybe
> I don't get the whole point at all :)
>
> For instance, i have a medium that is located in this sub-tree :
> ./foo/bar/baz/video.mpg
>
> As the RTSP server runs at the root of this tree, I thought I could access
> the medium with this url :
>
> rtsp://localhost:6666/foo:bar:baz:video.mpg
>
> Am I wrong on this one ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Guillaume.
>
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