[Live-devel] Discarding interleaved RTP or RTCP packet

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live555.com
Mon Sep 22 17:40:38 PDT 2008


>I'm hitting a problem (via vlc), where playback behaves normally for a
>minute or two, and then a stream of messages appears on the console,
>and playback hangs:
>
>Discarding interleaved RTP or RTCP packet (1444 bytes, channel id 86)
>
>Repeated infinitely.  This is happening when playing an MPEG4 RTSP
>stream from an Axis 243SA video server.  Any insight as to what this
>might mean?  It doesn't seem to happen consistently, but it's happening
>a lot today.  Seen with both VLC 0.8.6i and 0.9.2.

This may be a problem with your server (although I can't say for 
sure).  The only thing I can suggest right now is to not use 
RTP-over-TCP streaming.  (That means, of course, that you can't have 
any firewall between your server and client that's blocking UDP packets.)


	Ross Finlayson
	Live Networks, Inc. (LIVE555.COM)
	<http://www.live555.com/>



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