Hi all, I believe I am running into a known issue with QuickTime on the Mac. And I know this isn't a QuickTime mailing list but please bear with me.
The issue I am seeing is that when QuickTime uses RTSP-over-HTTP it appears not to send RTCP Receiver Report packets. With the predictable result that after 65 seconds Live555 terminates the session for inactivity. A quick google search has revealed the following post made in the Apple mailing lists (back in 2007): Thanks to Dave Singer and colleagues at Apple for tracking down this issue. It turns out that QuickTime Player does, indeed, have a bug that causes it to - in some circumstances - not send out RTCP "RR" packets. Fortunately RTSP servers can work around this bug by ensuring that they always include a "source=" parameter in the response to each RTSP "SETUP" command. According to the RTSP specification, this parameter is optional, but - if present - it will not trigger the QuickTime Player bug As far as I can tell Live555 *is* sending the "source=" parameter (I've seen it in a Wireshark trace), so in theory I should be avoiding the QuickTime bug. I'm using a recent version of Live555 (2013.10.25) and trying to play a stream with QuickTime Player (v10.1). Could anyone confirm that this workaround is still valid? Or indeed is there anything else I should be doing? I'd just like to get my facts straight before submitting a bug to Apple. Kind Regards, Ken Ferguson.
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