[vlc-devel] Re: [vlc] Illegal characters in RTSP stream user/password mechanism

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

On 11-aug-2006, at 22:40, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> I'm still having some confusion over the live555 conceptual usage  
>> of this area.
>
> You're thinking way too much about this.
>
> To add RTSP authentication support (with dialog boxes) to VLC, all  
> you need to do is modify the code that calls "describeURL()", as I  
> noted in my earlier message.
>
> If there are any other weird RTSP situations which the current code  
> doesn't handle, then we can fix this later, if and when we run into  
> them.  (But I'm not convinced that these exist in practice.)
>
>
>> Actually what I'm getting at is this. It appears that currently  
>> VLC creates an RTSPClient object AND a MediaSession object for a  
>> rtsp:// link
>
> That's correct.  VLC (and all other RTSP clients that use the  
> LIVE555 code) use the "RTSPClient" object to get a SDP description  
> (using the RTSP "DESCRIBE" command).  They then use this SDP  
> description to create a "MediaSession" object, which ends up  
> getting passed to the "RTSPClient" object, to implement subsequent  
> RTSP commands.
>
>> I was wondering wether in this case VLC shouldn't be required to  
>> use the MediaSession of  the initial RTSPClient
>
> The "RTSPClient" doesn't have a "MediaSession" of its own.  It is  
> *told* a "MediaSession" (or "MediaSubsession") object, when it is  
> asked to send RTSP "SETUP", "PLAY", etc. commands.
>
> But again, you don't need to care about this.  All you need to  
> concern yourself with are the calls to "describeURL()".

if( p_sys->ms ) Medium::close( p_sys->ms );
if( p_sys->rtsp ) Medium::close( p_sys->rtsp );

That got me confused..
The latter should be RTSPClient::close() i guess.

DJ

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