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[Ross Finlayson]

First, I don’t recommend that you use RTSP/RTP/RTCP tunneling over HTTP, *unless* your RTSP server and RTSP client(s) are separated by a firewall that supports only HTTP connections (not UDP, nor regular TCP connections).

However, if you wish to use this, then it works ‘as is’ in the code; you do not need to modify any code.

For example, you can run one of our RTSP server applications: the “LIVE555 Media Server”, or “testOnDemandRTSPServer”.  In each case, this will output the port number of a port that a client can use to connect to the RTSP server via HTTP tunneling.

You can then use our “openRTSP” RTSP client to receive the stream, tunneling over that HTTP port - e.g.
	openRTSP -T 8000 rtsp://url

You also asked about how to receive audio from your RTSP client.  Note that if you give the “-a” option to “openRTSP”, then it will output the received audio stream to ‘stdout’.  You can then redirect or pipe this to an application of your choosing (again, without having to modify any code).


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