[Live-devel] openRTSP (File Output / Session Timeout)

[Bob Bischan]

Ross,

Thanks for your reply....despite the absence of an actual question :-)  A
few days after posting the email to the list, I discovered that this had
been "asked and answered".

ProxyServer seems to handle reconnect scenarios pretty well. Would your
implementation of RTSPClient in ProxyServer be a good model for how to add
this functionality for client applications?

Have you considered adding file sink and output options to ProxyServer?

Bob


On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com>wrote:

> I have a quick question regarding the expected behavior of openRTSP client
> w/ file output when connection to the server is lost due to reboot, loss of
> connectivity...etc.
>
>
> The rest of your message didn't contain a question :-)  However...
>
> The only reliable way for a client to detect when a server 'dies' is to
> notice that RTP packets from the server stop arriving.  (Note that a TCP
> connection can stay alive for a long time after the remote end dies, so you
> can't reliably detect this from the TCP connection.)
>
> You can detect this in "openRTSP" using the "-D
> <maximum-inter-packet-gap>" option; see
> http://www.live555.com/openRTSP/#playing-time
>
> Note, however, that "openRTSP" uses a single connection only, and does not
> - by itself - attempt to reconnect to a dead server.  If you want to do
> that, you'll need to run "openRTSP" a separate time, e.g. from a shell
> script.
>
>
> Ross Finlayson
> Live Networks, Inc.
> http://www.live555.com/
>
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