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

[Nick Hart]

Thanks for the quick reply Ross, I appreciate it and I agree with the standards compliance point.  I have actually forwarded your response to Bitband support in hopes it might give them a bit of a kick in the pants.  Unfortunately, they claim that with the configuration changes I mentioned earlier, they do support VLC and im stuck in an 'it works for us' tech support hole.

I also understand Paul's point about speaking each server's dialect, only because that seems to be the precedent set so far in the industry.  Our set-top-box vendor (Amino) did exactly what he suggests and when you give a call to play a video, you specify the VoD servertype in the request.  For them its a selling point that they can interact with all of these different server vendors.  For me, having these servers and these STBs installed already means I am married to Bitband and have to find a PC client that works with them.  Obviously this isn't an easy task  :)

Enough rambling from me, but if you decide to add some code to support Bitband, id buy ya a box of chocolates.

-nick


-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Finlayson [mailto:finlayson at live555.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 5:22 PM
To: vlc at videolan.org
Subject: [vlc] Re: Cannot stream via RTSP from Bitband VOD server



>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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