<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">Another thing:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">+ add_integer( "rtsp-port", 5554, RTSP_PORT_TEXT, RTSP_PORT_LONGTEXT,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">true ) + change_integer_range( 1, 65535 )<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I couldn't guess whether you meant 554, or used 5554 instead of the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">registered rtsp-alt port 8554.<br></blockquote><br>I don't really care. 554 would cause a lot of problems as stupid users don't <br>understand the concept of "Permission denied" error on privileged ports.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>According to <<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers">http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers</a>>, port number 5554 is reserved for "SGI ESP HTTP", whatever that is… This might be an obsolete protocol (or it might not), but you still shouldn't be stepping on it.</div><div><br></div><div>It's better to use 8554, which is specifically reserved by IANA as an 'alternate' port for RTSP. (FYI, what I do for my server app is first try 554, and then if that fails (usually because of not running as root), try 8554.)</div><div><br></div><div>If enough server developers use 8554 (and 554), it will (in an ideal world) encourage middleware vendors to stop blocking those ports.</div><br><br><div>
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