[Live-devel] Streaming from subdirectories not working with embedded RTSP player

[Ross Finlayson]

>> As you can see, the RTSP client is not passing 'track1' in the SETUP url.
> 
> Yes, and that's what's causing the problem.  "SETUP" is an operation on a specific track within the file, not on the file as a whole.  The RTSP client should be adding "/track1" to the URL for the "SETUP" command.
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> *However*, as noted near the end of section 14.3 of RFC 2326 (the RTSP specification), the server should ideally be 'forgiving' of what this client is doing in this case, because - in this particular case - there is only one track within the file.
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> Normally, in fact, our server code is 'forgiving' of clients like this that are technically incorrect.  However, this code currently doesn't work properly for URLs - like yours - that specify subdirectories.
> 
> This will be fixed in the next release of the software.

FYI, I've now released a new version (0.73) of the "LIVE555 Media Server" (binaries and source code) that should work with your client.

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

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