Re: [Live-devel] Multicast addresses for MPEG4 and H.264 streams

2013-08-05 Thread Ross Finlayson
> I was thinking that RTSP would not work if the live 555 server and the > client (viewer) are on different subnets as the client wouldn't be able > to reach the server. [...] have > I understood this correctly ? No, you haven't understood this correctly - because RTSP (the control protocol) r

Re: [Live-devel] Multicast addresses for MPEG4 and H.264 streams

2013-08-02 Thread Piers Hawksley
Thanks Ross, >>1/ Can LIVE555 stream H.264 or MPEG4 video to rtp://:1234 without using RTSP to set-up the stream >Yes, (although note that the "rtp://" URL is nonstandard, and is used only by (some) receivers - e.g., VLC - and has nothing to do with our code). Note, though, that H.264 and MP

Re: [Live-devel] Multicast addresses for MPEG4 and H.264 streams

2013-08-02 Thread Ross Finlayson
> Can live555 stream H.264 or MPEG4 video to rtp://:1234 > without using RTSP to set-up the stream (e.g. the client might be on a > different subnet to the live555 server) ? There are (from what I can tell) two different questions here: 1/ Can LIVE555 stream H.264 or MPEG4 video to rtp://:1234

Re: [Live-devel] Multicast addresses for MPEG4 and H.264 streams

2013-08-02 Thread Ross Finlayson
> The FAQ mentions that the testMPEG4VideoStreamer program incorporates an > RTSP server to provide the SDP description - is this why the RTP > multicast stream is accessed using the RTSP unicast address ? Yes. > VLC instructions (http://www.videolan.org/doc/play-howto/en/ch04.html) > suggest

Re: [Live-devel] Multicast addresses for MPEG4 and H.264 streams

2013-07-25 Thread Piers Hawksley
Can live555 stream H.264 or MPEG4 video to rtp://:1234 without using RTSP to set-up the stream (e.g. the client might be on a different subnet to the live555 server) ? I am extending a program (a camera application running on Embedded Linux and using live555 to serve the video streams) to add

[Live-devel] Multicast addresses for MPEG4 and H.264 streams

2013-07-23 Thread Piers Hawksley
Can I test my understanding of the testMPEG4VideoStreamer multicast sample application and ask a question on the server media session reference count ? testMPEG4VideoStreamer creates an RTSP server to stream test.m4e and reports 'Play using this stream using the URL ...'. The URL is of the for