<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><div>When I am canceling and restarting the thread on camera events I am
getting following error message and streaming is not started.</div>
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<div><strong><em>Failed to create RTSP server: bind() error (port number: 8554):
Address already in use</em></strong></div>
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<div>I guess the socket is not being closed on thread cancellation.</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Correct. Because the *process* (which owns the socket) still exists, the socket remains open, even though the *thread* that happens to be using the socket has closed. This is because (for most operating systems, at least) the operating system knows nothing about threads; it deals with processes.</div><div><br></div><div>Why don't you instead simply restart the entire *process*, rather than trying to restart a thread within a still-running process?</div><div><br></div><div>However, having said that, the following *might* work for you (although I can't say for sure):</div><div>Add</div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-D ALLOW_RTSP_SERVER_PORT_REUSE=1</div><div>to the "COMPILE_OPTS =" line of your "config." file. Then, recompile "RTSPServer.cpp".</div></div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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