[Live-devel] GET_PARAMETERS used as a ping request and VLC

[Glen Gray]

On 26/11/09 00:28, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> Yes, by modifying the code in "RTSPServer.cpp" :-)
>
> Until we fix the problem (at least at the server end), that's the only 
> way I can see to overcome this issue - unless VLC is fixed to not use 
> "GET_PARAMETER" as a client liveness indicator.  It doesn't really 
> need to do this, because RTCP already acts as a (much better) client 
> liveness indicator.  But perhaps the VLC developers did this in order 
> to support some other (broken) server implementation that didn't 
> recognize RTCP "RR" packets from the clients??

Yes, the K word would follow here. However, if I recall correctly, it 
only ever sends the GET_PARAMETER messages as a keep alive if the server 
reports back a timeout value as part of the setup.

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