> Thank you for the reply. Not to get too far off-topic, but the Live Media 
> Server documentation has a section describing support for Apple products and 
> states the following:
> As a special case, the server can also stream MPEG Transport Stream files to 
> iPhones and iPads, using Apple's "HTTP Live Streaming" mechanism. (A single 
> server can stream the same file(s) using either RTSP/RTP (to standard 
> RTSP/RTP clients such as VLC), or using HTTP (to "Safari" on iPhones and 
> iPads).)
[…]
> To view such a stream from an iPhone or iPad, you do so using the "Safari" 
> browser app, and use a "http://"; URL, not a "rtsp://" URL. Specifically, you 
> enter an URL of the form
> 
> http://<server-name-or-ip-address>:<http-port-number>/<filename>
> The above is the setup I am using and it definitely supports an http://... 
> URL so long as the transport stream file is located in the same directory as 
> the liveMediaServer binary.

You’re correct.  I had forgotten about the “HTTP Live Streaming” support (and 
was a bit surprised to learn that someone is actually using it :-)

I’ll investigate why subdirectories in URLs apparently do not work.  Thanks for 
the note.


Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/


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