[streaming] VLC VoD Server -- does it *work*?
Calin A. Culianu
calin at ajvar.org
Thu Sep 7 05:56:39 CEST 2006
I can't get VLC Video On Demand to work at all (using rtsp). If I use vlc
as the server and vlc as the client (basically vlc talking to vlc) for
rtsp:// VoD, the client barfs and aborts the play attempt because it
complains that it isn't a "Real/Helix" vlc server.
Some investigation into the sources revealed that basically the client
rtsp access plugin expects the server string to contain "Real" or "Helix"
and if it doesn't it fails (modules/access/rtsp/access.c line 202 or so).
However, the VLC VoD RTSP server string is "VLC Server".
Also, RealPlayer, mplayer, WMP also refuse to play rtsp urls's from
a vlc server.
Any ideas? Does anyone else find it strange that the vlc client can't
talk to the vlc server? How did other people get VoD over rtsp working?!
PS: I am using 0.8.5 and 0.8.6 svn.
-Calin
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