2010/1/8 Němec Alexandr <a.ne...@atlas.cz>

> Dear all,
> we have downloaded the VLC player and we realized the live555 code is used
> in it (well, we are new to the scene). We studied the VLC code but it is not
> obvious to us, what parts of live555 streaming media library the VLC player
> is using. We thought that the VLC player uses live555 code whenever it needs
> to contact a RTSP server and to receive data via RTP. But there seem to be
> other code files in the VLC project covering the RTSP and RTP
> implementations. So what is the relation here? We just want to make this
> clear to be able to understand both code packages (live555 and VLC
> correctly).
> Thanks
>

I haven't looked at VLC, but for a lot of media types in Live555, you have
to subclass some generic type and make your own media sinks/sources.  So my
guess would be they're subclassing Live555 classes for custom protocols, or
protocols that often require subclassing (e.g. H264).
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