[Live-devel] New RTSP to HLS version Question

[Ross Finlayson]

First, I presume that you are referring to the experimental “live555HLSProxy” application that I announced a few days ago.  This has nothing to do with the separate, longstanding “LIVE555 Proxy Server” application, which proxies a back-end RTSP server to (one or more) front-end RTSP clients.

“live555HLSProxy” is completely different.  It reads from (a single) back-end RTSP server, and writes HLS chunks (and a HLS playlist) into a directory that is intended to be used by a separate (HTTP/HTTPS) web server.


> On Dec 31, 2019, at 7:39 AM, dan_desjardins <dan.desjardins at videstra.com> wrote:
> 
> With HLS it would seem that chunks will need to be created regardless of the presence of a back-end connection or not, thus there would always be a connection to the originating device.  Is this a correct assumption?

I’m not sure what you mean by this question.  If the ‘back-end’ RTSP stream (the one that you specify on the command line) exists, then “live555HLSProxy” will keep reading from it, and writing HLS chunks (and a HLS playlist).

But rather than just speculating about this application, why don’t you just try running it yourself?  It comes with the latest version of the “LIVE555 Streaming Media” code.


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