[Live-devel] Windows Media Player?

[Ross Finlayson]

>I have the live555StreamingServer serving up MPEG2-TS files for me, 
>and it works great! 
>
>When I view it with [VLC], everything is perfect - yet when I 
>connect with non-standards-compliant Windows Media Player to view 
>the RTSP stream, it fails.

You've answered your question right there.


>  I've wiresharked the handshake, and it's almost right (DESCRIBE, 
>SETUP) up to the point where you would excpect a "PLAY" command to 
>be issued, at which point the WMP for some reason issues an HTTP GET 
>on the file (complete with http headers).
>
>I'm sure I'm not the first to have hit this - so has anyone out 
>there modified the live555server codebase to allow this hackney WMP 
>handshake to work?
>
>Without support for WMP, I'm sorta dead in the water.

Then you're "sorta dead in the water".  You should complain to 
Microsoft, asking them to fix their non-standards-compliant media 
player.
-- 

Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/
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