[MPlayer-dev-eng] Mplayers rtsp (live 555) DESCRIBE command

[Compn]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:27:53 -0800, Ratin wrote:

>Somebody suggested to use gmane to post here but everytime I post via
>that, the moderator disallows my post,
>probably due to authentication problems. So anyways, I developed an
>RTSP server and as I am testing it, I see
>that the mplayer's RTSP client sends two DESCRIBE requests, one of the
>url format :
>
>rtsp://foo.bar:554/blah
>
>and then again
>
>rtsp://foo.bar/blah (without the port number).
>
>But the ourgoing tcp port is different which results in a closure of
>the first socket and re-SYN ing the tcp connection.
>Can anybody tell me why it does it ? It happens even when a perfectly
>valid reply goes out for the first response.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ratin


did you try openrtsp from live555.com ?
if it exhibits the same problem, then its a live555 problem and you
should report it to live555 list.

also you might want to try nemesi with mplayer, its an alternative rtsp
lib.

there is another rtsp problem on our bugzilla...
http://bugzilla.mplayerhq.hu/show_bug.cgi?id=1020

-compn