[MPlayer-dev-eng] [REQUEST] integrate libnms (from NeMeSI) into the stream layer?

[Gamester17]

Hi, I'm not a developer myself but  I like to make a request, a suggested 
code addition to MPlayer. 

I read that you recently introduced a new "stream" directory to the source 
code structure to separate the streaming layer, and to that directory 
freesdp and librtsp, etc. (based on what I understand the 'old' stream code 
that MPlayer already used). Here I was wondering if anyone thinks it would 
be a good idea to integrate the libnms library (from the NeMeS project) and 
use its code for  RTSP, RTP/RTCP and SDP streaming?, ...or possible the 
other way around and instead integrate all the MPlayer 'stream' code into 
the NeMeS project and then use their libnms library for all streaming in 
MPlayer 'as is', as that way it would be one less library that the MPlayer 
developers would have to actively maintain, (and other projects could also 
easier use that library in their multimedia players). By the way, libnms 
does also support Creative Commons licensing meta-data for audio/video 
streaming (via libCCstreaming which is part of libnms) which would be a new 
feature to added to MPlayer with the help of this library. 

For those who are not aware of the NeMeSI project, it is a RTSP and RTP/RTCP 
streaming-client (licensed under the GPL) that allows user to enjoy playback 
of multimedia files with low latency transport over IP-based networks, and 
the libnms library (from the latest trunk in the SVN of the NeMeSI project) 
is a RTSP, RTP/RTCP and SDP "Open Media Streaming Client Library" which is 
specifically designed to "let you add multimedia streaming playback in your 
applications in a quick and straightforward way". libnms (and NeMeSI) source 
code does contain example code and there are partially doxygenized headers 
(Doxygen code documentation), that hopefully can help programmers to get to 
know the code quicker. 

libnms does today not support Real Networks RDT (Real Data Transport 
streaming-protocol), so I guess that realrtsp would have to be adopted from 
MPlayer (and xine?) if you wanted to move MPlayer 'stream' code into the 
NeMeS project. Neither I'm I sure if libnms/NeMeS support HTTP and UDP 
streaming(?), or QuickTime(?). 

Reference links:
http://streaming.polito.it/client/library
http://streaming.polito.it/client
http://streaming.polito.it/downloads/svn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_License
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons 

Anyway, what do you guys think?, ...any comments and/or volunteers? 

PS! Maybe this should be a separate discussion, but what about also 
integrating or adding libcurl (from the cURL project) to MPlayer in that new 
"stream" layer structure?, libcurl can support streaming from many other 
protocols, like; FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS (including SSL certificates), with 
user+password authentication, proxies, cookies...  ...and that on just as 
many platforms that MPlayer supports, more on http://curl.haxx.se 

Best regards / Andreas (a.k.a. Gamester17)