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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">I have the
live555StreamingServer serving up MPEG2-TS files for me, and it works
great! </font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">When I view
it with [VLC], everything is perfect - yet when I connect with
non-standards-compliant Windows Media Player to view the RTSP stream,
it fails.</font></blockquote>
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<div>You've answered your question right there.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> <font face="Arial" size="-1">I've
wiresharked the handshake, and it's almost right (DESCRIBE, SETUP) up
to the point where you would excpect a "PLAY" command to be
issued, at which point the WMP for some reason issues an HTTP GET on
the file (complete with http headers).</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">I'm sure I'm
not the first to have hit this - so has anyone out there modified the
live555server codebase to allow this hackney WMP handshake to
work?</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Without
support for WMP, I'm sorta dead in the water.</font></blockquote>
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<div>Then you're "sorta dead in the water". You should
complain to Microsoft, asking them to fix their
non-standards-compliant media player.</div>
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Ross Finlayson<br>
Live Networks, Inc.<br>
http://www.live555.com/</div>
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