[Live-devel] RTSP Client Timeout

[Ross Finlayson]

>   I am currently using livemedia as my rtsp client, however, I am 
>suffering a problem, which the timeout parameter on the 
>DescribeWithPassword and describeURL functions doesn't seems to 
>work. Therefore when connection fail at start, the program will have 
>to wait for a very long time.  Can you think of why or have I done 
>anything wrong.

Not really, unfortunately.  I suggest tracing through those 
functions' implementation (in "liveMedia/RTSPClient.hh") to try to 
figure out what's going wrong.

(However, a completely new implementation of "RTSPClient" is coming 
soon (hopefully within days).  It might fix your problem.)
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/