[Live-devel] Implement RTSP skip forward in mediaServer

[Steve Malenfant]

I can't use the live555 client, I'm using an Amino STB. My first test failed
(maybe I used the wrong stream with no trick play), but my second test just
worked.

Thanks.


On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com>wrote:

>  Seems like there is an option in RTSP to specify a range in time that you
> want to start your stream.
>
>
> Yes, and we support it, for both RTSP clients and RTSP servers.
>
> For RTSP clients: Note the "start" and "end" parameters to "RTSPClient::
> playMediaSession()" and "RTSPClient:: playMediaSubsession()".  These
> parameters (if set to non-default values) tell the RTSP client to request a
> specific time range.
>
> For RTSP servers: Our RTSP server implementation (including its use in the
> "LIVE555 Media Server" product) supports these requests, ***provided that***
> the underlying file type can handle them.  In our current implementation,
> the following file types support this:
> - MP3 audio files
> - MPEG-1or 2 audio/video Program Stream files (but not reliably)
> - MPEG Transport Stream files (provided that they each have an 'index
> file'; see the documentation)
> - WAV audio files
>
> For other file types (including MPEG-4 video files), our implementation
> currently does *not* support seeking.
>
> http://www.myiptv.org/Articles/RTSP/tabid/72/Default.aspx
> "The important bits of this command are Range and Scale. See I said you
> would want to know the range. Range specifies from where and how much of the
> content to play. 0- tells the server to start at the beginning and play to
> the end but you could also start anywhere in the file as we'll see in a
> minute or only play the first 5 minutes of the content. It's up to you."
>
>
> You don't have to worry about the details of the RTSP protocol; we
> implement all of this for you.  Just use our "RTSPClient" class, and pass
> the appropriate parameters (as noted above).
>
> --
>
>
> Ross Finlayson
> Live Networks, Inc.
> http://www.live555.com/
>
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