[Live-devel] rtsp client and server in the same app

Mat Laibowitz mlaibow.davinci at gmail.com
Sun Oct 26 02:52:37 PDT 2008


A little more info. It is not the SDP request that fails, it is the OPTIONS
request that returns NULL.
I added a check fro null after the getOptionsRequest as shown below. And it
returns NULL when called in the same program as starting a RTSP server.
So the actual error message is the same, but it is from the OPTIONS request
and not the SDP request.
-mat

Created Client:
0xc3b98

Sending request: OPTIONS rtsp://18.85.45.131:8554/videoStreamRTSP/1.0

CSeq:
1

User-Agent: spinner_video_control (LIVE555 Streaming Media
v2008.09.02)





RTSP "OPTIONS" request failed:Failed to read response: Cannot assign
requested
address

Sending request: DESCRIBE rtsp://18.85.45.131:8554/videoStreamRTSP/1.0

CSeq:
2

Accept:
application/sdp

User-Agent: spinner_video_control (LIVE555 Streaming Media
v2008.09.02)


-------------------------------------------------------




Failed to get a SDP description from URL "rtsp://
18.85.45.131:8554/videoStream": Failed to read response: Cannot assign
requested address
/

  if (sendOptionsRequest) {
    // Begin by sending an "OPTIONS" command:
    char* optionsResponse
      = getOptionsResponse(ourClient, rtspUrl, username, password);
    if (sendOptionsRequestOnly) {
      if (optionsResponse == NULL) {
    *env << clientProtocolName << " \"OPTIONS\" request failed: "
         << env->getResultMsg() << "\n";
      } else {
    *env << clientProtocolName << " \"OPTIONS\" request returned: "
         << optionsResponse << "\n";
      }
      return shutdown(FAILURE);
    }
    if(optionsResponse == NULL) {
      *env << clientProtocolName << " \"OPTIONS\" request failed:" <<
env->getResultMsg()  << "\n";
    } else {
     *env << clientProtocolName << " \"OPTIONS\" request returned: "
         << optionsResponse << "\n";
    }
    delete[] optionsResponse;
  }


On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:20 AM, Mat Laibowitz <mlaibow.davinci at gmail.com>wrote:

> So I have made it pretty far referencing the complete source code and the
> test programs.
> But I am a bit stuck on one issue.
> I have built a RTSP server with a custom FrameSource that talks to my
> hardware for encoding.
> This works great, it uses the background read handling and can be received
> by openRTSP or mplayer or vlc or quicktime without fail.
>
> I have also created a custom client based on openRTSP that talks to my
> hardware to decode the stream and display it on the framebuffer or record it
> to a file. This also works great and when the two programs are on different
> nodes the client can receive from the server.
>
> If I put them both on the same node, they also work, provided that I turn
> off the connection to the hardware enc/dec in one of the programs (the
> client will just record the mpeg4 stream to file and not decode it and
> display it).
> This is because of a limit of the platform that I can only access the
> hardware codec from one process/program.
>
> So I am trying to combine the client and the server in one application.
> The code is essentially the same, it just uses one environment and one call
> to the task loop.
>
> The RTSP server starts up fine and I can receive the video anywhere
> including with a version of the same application with the server and
> hardware decoding turned off.
>
> However, the client always fails when started from the same program as the
> server.
> The error message is:
> Failed to get a SDP description from URL "rtsp://
> 18.85.45.131:8554/videoStream":
>  Failed to read response: Cannot assign requested address
>
> I am guessing that the client somehow is trying to use some resource that
> is already in use by the server. But I am not sure what that can be. Any
> help would be greatly appreciated. I thought it was a port or sockets
> problem at first, but one is a client and one is a server, and they both
> work if they are in separate programs on the same device.
>
> Thanks for a great system, I am quite happy to have my devices streaming
> video between them, I just need to solve this one integration issue and it
> will be great.
>
> -mat
>
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