[Live-devel] No more livemedia in VLC on Debian 11?

[Ross Finlayson]

> On Dec 23, 2022, at 1:36 AM, Zuiderhoek, Jeroen <jeroen.zuiderhoek at saabgroup.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I just noticed that VLC on Debian 11 doesn’t support receiving RTSP streams anymore, due to license issues with livemedia as mentioned here:https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=981439.

I addressed this in October 2020:
	http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2020-October/021770.html
Note that there’s now only 1 file that Debian (but only Debian, apparently) considers problematic.  So that Debian ‘bug report’ is out of date.

My (parenthetical) comment at the end of my October 2020 reply still applies:
	(As an aside, I’d personally prefer that Linux distributions *not* include old copies of the “LIVE555 Streaming Media” code, as they contain bugs (including, potentially, security vulnerabilities) that have been fixed in more recent versions.  Instead, developers using this code should use the latest version; see http://live555.com/liveMedia/faq.html#latest-version .  (Note that, to my knowledge, the code is not used at all in any Linux *kernel*.))


>  Because of this, RTSP is not supported anymore since VLC version 3.0.12.

That’s not true - for example, VLC version 3.0.18 for the Mac includes a RTSP client (using the LIVE555 code).

It should still be possible to build VLC with RTSP client support, using the latest version of the LIVE555 code (but perhaps not directly using the VLC code that’s shipped with Debian).


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