[Live-devel] Manage (open / close) connection to camera with openRTSP and consume RTP via mobile client

[Ross Finlayson]

> My problem is that the other device is not on the same host.

Unfortunately you won’t be able to use “openRTSP” (at least, not alone) to do this.  In general, you can’t tell a RTSP server to send its stream to a destination that’s different from the RTSP client.  (There *is* a mechanism in the RTSP protocol for this, but almost no servers implement this, because it would allow ‘denial of service’ attacks.  Almost certainly, your network camera’s RTSP server does not implement this.)

Is there a reason why your ‘mobile client’ can’t just implement a RTSP client itself?  (E.g., if you run the “VLC” app on this ‘mobile cient’, then it will already support RTSP.)  Otherwise, you’ll have to write your own application (perhaps using our “LIVE555 Streaming Media” software that receives the stream (via RTSP), and then forwards the content (somehow) to your ‘mobile client’.


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