Re: [Live-devel] Is there a mechanism for telling a client to switch streams?

2016-07-06 Thread Ben Rush
Hi, thanks for your great response. There's actually a few reasons why we prefer using rtsp if possible. One of which is the time-sensitive nature of the content: we are in hospitals and delivering real time streams of patients. Being even a few seconds off could mean a patient falling. I have see

Re: [Live-devel] Is there a mechanism for telling a client to switch streams?

2016-07-06 Thread Jeremiah Morrill
AFAIK, there’s no built in mechanism for adaptive streaming. There are some things you can do, but may not be flexible enough. For instance, if you have a low-res-h264 and high-res-h264 version of a video, in the server code, you could switch which file you are reading from, seek to the same p

[Live-devel] Is there a mechanism for telling a client to switch streams?

2016-07-06 Thread Ben Rush
I realize that, if there is a supported mechanism, that it's largely the responsibility of the client (and therefore that this may not be a Live555 server concern), but I'm also curious about what it would take on the server to implement stream switching. Here is our scenario. I'm using Live555 to