[streaming] Re: VLC VoD Server -- does it *work*?

[Calin A. Culianu]

I don't understand how VLC client can be working for you guys when there 
is code explicitly in the client (even in 0.8.5) which *rejects* servers 
that don't have the identification string "Real" or "Helix".  VLC Server 
seems to have the identification string "VLC Server", so the client 
*rejects* the server!!

I will try quicktime -- maybe it will work better.  But you tell me 0.8.4a 
works best as server, eh?

PS:  I'm on Linux -- there shouldn't be a difference between Linux and 
Windows but I am going so crazy I think I may try Windows next..

-Calin

On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Pushkal Mishra wrote:

> Hi Calin,
>
> I used VLC client (browser plugin - IE and FF), with VLC server with
> success. VLC version 0.8.4a was best in my experience so far from a server
> perspective (0.8.5 could not replay the stream after a pause, instead it
> restarted the RTSP stream).
>
> VLC client is always 0.8.5 on my end.
>
> Thanks,
> Pushkal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: streaming-bounce at videolan.org [mailto:streaming-bounce at videolan.org]
> On Behalf Of Mait Mandel
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:10 AM
> To: streaming at videolan.org
> Subject: [streaming] Re: VLC VoD Server -- does it *work*?
>
> hey,
>
> try quicktime player.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: streaming-bounce at videolan.org
> [mailto:streaming-bounce at videolan.org] On Behalf Of Calin A. Culianu
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 6:57 AM
> To: vlc at videolan.org; vlc at videolan.org
> Subject: [streaming] VLC VoD Server -- does it *work*?
>
>
> 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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