[Live-devel] PATCH: raw UDP mode for testMPEG2TransportStreamer

[Ross Finlayson]

> Attached is a quick hack on testMPEG2TransportStreamer.cpp to give it a compile-time mode for raw UDP streaming instead of RTP.
> 
> Perhaps it would be useful to include this in the next version.

No, because streaming over raw UDP is a bad idea, and I don't want to further encourage its use.  (Although raw UDP streaming works with Transport Stream data, it's still a bad idea, because you miss out on the ability of RTP to handle out-of-order network packets, and you miss out on the benefits of RTCP (for statistics monitoring and 'liveness' indications).)

(Also, a UDP-streaming version of "testMPEG2TransportStreamer" would be incompatible with "testMPEG2TransportReceiver" (unless, of course, that were hacked in the same way.))

If people really want a UDP-streaming version of "testMPEG2TransportStreamer", then they can easily write their own application to do so.


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

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