[Live-devel] Making RTSP commands work when streaming RTP over TCP

[Matt Schuckmann]

Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> So while I debate the merits of changing RTSPClient I went ahead and 
>> with my original idea of creating a second TCP connection once the 
>> first is taken over for streaming and by golly it works (with the 
>> server mods I mentioned before).  I don't have all the kinks and 
>> corner cases worked out yet but it does work. Would this be something 
>> you'd want to have in the library.
>
> At some point soon I'll be making major changes to the "RTSPClient" 
> implementation (primarily to make it do asynchronous socket reads, in 
> line with most of the rest of the code, but perhaps addressing the 
> RTSP/RTP-over-TCP issue as well).  Until that time, I don't plan on 
> accepting any patches to this code (except for simple, obvious bug 
> fixes).

Totally understandable. In the mean time to make RTP over TCP work in my 
limited closed world application I'll subclass RTSPClient to implement 
my second TCP socket approach and move on.
I'll keep an eye out for your changes of RTSPClient. Let me know if 
there is anything I can do to get the standardized RTP over TCP working.

At some point I'd like to provide you with a patch for my server changes 
to allow non-persistent RTSP connections as I think it has good 
application beyond this problem (notably with unreliable network 
connections, i.e. cell and SAT networks).

Thanks
Matt S.