[streaming] Re: RTP over RTSP with vlc 0.8.1

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Torben Knerr wrote:

>> You keep mixing up RTP and RTSP which are not the same.
>
> didn't want to be confusing here.. what i didn't explain was that i 
> found the --rtsp-tcp switch
> on the vlc wiki 
> (http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/VLC_command-line_help), where it says
> that it is used for "rtp over rtsp". so the name of this commandline 
> option is a little misleading
> in this case.. but as mr ross finlayson says, this option applies to 
> streaming _clients_ only,
> so it is not possible to send rtp over rtsp/tcp with this option.

It got me confused ;-)

>> You are looking for rtp/tcp combination, which is not implemented in 
>> VLC. We welcome any patches implementing this !
>
> basically yes, but referring to mr finlayson's reply there is part of 
> the rtsp rfc which specifies
> sending rtp data encapsulated in rtsp packets. so i think it would be 
> a little more work than
> just using tcp as a transport protocol instead of udp (at least if you 
> want to be spec compliant,
> which i would prefer).

Ross, thanks for correcting me.

> i would also love to see this feature in future versions of vlc, but 
> i'm in doubt this will happen soon :(
> there was a discussion in this list some time ago, where i requested 
> better rtsp server support for
> vlc (including rtcp, more control over sdp generation and so on..), 
> but it didn't happen until now.

You can always help ;-). The team is now very busy with stabilizing 
0.8.2 and won't work on much other things in the meantime.

> anyway, i would love to see at least "rtp over rtsp". i think this 
> should be possible with not
> that much effort, because the basics are already present. plz.. :-)

Basically someone should do it. You could make sure to get it on our 
wishlist or in the new Trac ticket list.

Greetings,
Jean-Paul Saman.

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