[vlc] Re: Cannot stream via RTSP from Bitband VOD server

[Ross Finlayson]

>I know a lot of the developers are not keen on this, but in reality 
>if they want to use VLC with the widest range of VoD servers, then 
>the client will need to be adapted so you can specify what "flavour" 
>of RTSP you want to talk to a particular server.

Sorry, but that's just not going to happen.  (It was bad enough 
having to hack the RTSP client code to try to work with the 
non-standard 'Kasenna' server.  There's just no way we can continue 
to hack the code to support every little fly-by-night server that 
chooses to arbitrarily violate the RTSP standard.)

>  Just about every server i have ever seen has done things slightly 
> differently from setup to trickplay support.

That's all well and good; however, there's just one RTSP 
standard.  Apart from QuickTime Player (which is also 
standards-compliant), VLC is probably the most widely-deployed RTSP 
client in the world.  We have the power to insist that servers comply 
with us - not the other way round.


	Ross Finlayson
	Live Networks, Inc. (LIVE555.COM)
	<http://www.live555.com/>

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