[Live-devel] regression in live555 connecting an acti camera

[Ross Finlayson]

>I can't connect anymore to an acti camera using latest version of live555.
>I don't know since which version exactly it doesn't work.
>
>1- output of new version not working :
>http://www.celeos.eu/tmp/notworking.txt
>
>2- output of an old working version :
>http://www.celeos.eu/tmp/working.txt


OK, I found the problem with this camera: It is sending back a bad 
"Range:" header in its response to the RTSP "PLAY" command:
	Range: ntp=0.000-
This is wrong.  It should be "npt", not "ntp".

You should contact the camera's manufacturer, asking them to fix 
their camera's RTSP server.

By the way, you were incorrect when you said that a previous version 
of our code (2009.07.27, according to your "working.txt" log) handled 
this camera correctly.  As far as I can tell, we have *never* 
accepted a "Range:" header that says "ntp" instead of "npt".  You 
must have hacked your own version of the code to accept this (broken) 
"Range:" header, and then forgotten about it.

(The Sanyo camera, however, was behaving correctly.  I have now 
installed a new version (2010.06.18) of our code that will support it 
once again.  This new version also prints a more meaningful error 
when it sees the bad "Range:" line returned by the "acti" camera.)
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/