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

[Gildas Bazin]

On Thursday 07 September 2006 13:34, Calin A. Culianu wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Michel Van den Bergh wrote:
> 
> > Calin A. Culianu wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> 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!!
> >
> >
> > If this is the problem why don't you just fix it yourself. It seems like
> > a trivial thing.
> 
> Well I do and then the client segfaults!  So I guess there is a reason for 
> that code -- it's a guard against client bugs with non-Real/Helix servers?
> 
> *Sigh*.  What I really don't understand is all these people claiming VLC 
> client works with the server.  That has me downright baffled given the 
> state of the sourcecode rejecting VLC servers outright..
> 

Well, it would help if you were using the right RTSP input module.

FYI, VLC has 2 of them. There is one which handles Real's version of RTSP 
and another one which uses the live555 RTSP library and handles everything 
else.

So it looks like you forgot to include the live555 support in your VLC.

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Gildas

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