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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Best possible uptime is essential for the RTSP client I'm implementing. I've therefore looked into how to best handle reconnection if the stream for any reason is disconnected. I noticed fairly quickly that liveMedia is taking care of that really good and there is no reason for me to try to implement any general disconnect handling, as I can't possible reconnect any faster than liveMedia already does.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>There is one case where it doesn't work though, and I'm not sure how to handle it. This is if I do a seek while the stream is disconnected, then it never reconnects. In some cases I play a 10s loop where a timer do a seek every 10s and jumps back (using absolute seeking). Those streams never reconnect after a disconnection.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>I see a few alternatives:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#403152'>1. I continuously try to reconnect myself, but I don't want to mess up liveMedia's reconnection handling, so not sure how to detect when I should handle a disconnect myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#403152'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#403152'>2. Make sure I don't issue a seek, or any PLAY-command (i.e. call sendPlayCommand()) when the stream is down. Is there a status flag I can check somewhere to determine this?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#403152'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#403152'>3. Look at the reconnect-handling in liveMedia. No idea what could be done to make sure the re-connect functionality isn't disrupted, but maybe buffer the PLAY-commands until they can be performed, or just discard them. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:#17365D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Any comments would be appreciated. Can anyone confirm that my theories are correct, i.e. that a stream doesn't reconnect if a PLAY-command is issued while the stream is down?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>/Claes<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>