[vlc-devel] Re: Fix to make VoD work with HansunTech STBs

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
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> The only problem which remains is the RTSP session specification - VLC
> appends ";timeout=5" to it, which confuses the STB - it thinks that this
> is the whole Session ID and when it replies with the string to VLC, VLC
> can't find the session. How do I work around that?

Make an option that don't add the timeout to the rtsp response. Some 
STB's require the timeout option. Or fix the STB ;-)

Something along these lines. Please, do a manual apply because the patch 
below won't apply at all. It is merely some code to get you on your way 
for producing a proper patch for this.

--- vlc-0.8.6-old/modules/misc/rtsp.c	2006-12-09 02:12:16.000000000 +0100
+++ vlc-0.8.6/modules/misc/rtsp.c	2007-01-11 16:49:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@
  #define THROTLE_LONGTEXT N_( "This limits the maximum number of 
clients " \
      "that can connect to the RTSP VOD. 0 means no limit."  )

+#define SESSION_TIMEOUT_TEXT N_( "Add timeout option to session string" )
+#define SESSION_TIMEOUT__LONGTEXT N_( "Adds timeout option to session 
string. Needed by some STB's." )

  vlc_module_begin();
      set_shortname( _("RTSP VoD" ) );
      set_description( _("RTSP VoD server") );
@@ -68,6 +75,7 @@
      add_string ( "rtsp-host", NULL, NULL, HOST_TEXT, HOST_LONGTEXT, 
VLC_TRUE );
      add_integer( "rtsp-throttle-users", 0, NULL, THROTLE_TEXT,
                                             THROTLE_LONGTEXT, VLC_TRUE );
+    add_bool( "rtsp-session-timeout", NULL, NULL, 
SESSION_TIMEOUT__TEXT, SESSION_TIMEOUT_LONGTEXT, VLC_TRUE );
  vlc_module_end();

@@ @@ struct sys_thread_t

+ vlc_bool_t b_session_timeout;

@@ @@ Open( ... )

+ p_sys->b_session_timeout = var_GetBool( p_this, "rtsp-session-timeout" );

@@ -931,7 +964,7 @@

      if( psz_session )
      {
+	 if( p_sys->b_session_timeout )
+	    httpd_MsgAdd( answer, "Session", "%s;timeout=5", psz_session );
+        else
+             httpd_MsgAdd( answer, "Session", "%s", psz_session );
      }

      return VLC_SUCCESS;



Gtz,
Jean-Paul Saman.

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