[Live-devel] .mkv and Quick Time

[Ross Finlayson]

> On Oct 27, 2021, at 7:10 PM, Jim Ham <jimham at porcine.com> wrote:
> 
> One of my testers replied as follows:
[…]
> "QuickTime Player cannot open <my URL> because it does not recognize internet addresses starting with "rtsp"."
> 
> Another one of my testers replied:
> 
> "QuickTime Player doesn’t support mkv files

These are two completely different things.  The statement "QuickTime Player doesn’t support mkv files” implies that you’re talking about the QuickTime Player application being unable to play a mkv file directly - i.e., not over a network.  This would have nothing to do with RTSP, or our server, or our software at all.

> (though it certainly does support H.264

Once again, are you talking about playing a H.264 file (in whatever format) directly, or over a network (via our server) using RTSP?  If the latter, then that contradicts the statement that “QuickTime Player […] does not recognize internet addresses starting with ‘rtsp’”.  But if it’s the former, then this has nothing to do with us at all.

You and/or your ‘testers' are not being very clear at all.

But, under the assumption that it’s really the case that “QuickTime Player […] does not recognize internet addresses starting with ‘rtsp’”, then I’ve removed - from our web site - the mention of QuickTime Player being a "standards-compliant RTSP/RTP media client”.


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