[MPlayer-users] Re: How to [play] RealMedia streams?

[Ross Finlayson]

> > Anyway, Real's RTSP uses some sort of cryptographic challenge-response
> > deal
[...]

>That's already done in xine and works rather well.

Kudos to the "xine" developers for figuring this out.

FYI, I plan to also implement this in the "LIVE.COM Streaming Media" 
libraries (the libraries that MPlayer uses to do RTSP/RTP streaming).  I 
can't say yet when this will be available, though, because I generally give 
priority to (i) features that are requested by paying consulting clients, 
and (ii) features that implement open standard protocols.  Non-standard, 
single-company-specific hacks like this tend to be lower-priority.

BTW, questions about the LIVE.COM Streaming Media libraries (rather than 
questions specifically about MPlayer) are better-suited for the 
"live-devel" mailing list - see 
<http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/live-devel> for information.

         Ross.