[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: [PATCH] proof of concept to fix RTSP problem

[Romain DEGEZ]

Michael A. Kohn wrote:

> The problem is:  When an ffmpeg is acting as an RTSP client connecting
> to an RTSP server (I've tested this both with an Axis 213 camera and
> a program called Spook (http://www.litech.org/spook/).  The original
> ffmpeg before this patch didn't work.  It works from my laptop after
> this patch.  ffmpeg is not sending RTCP RR packets back to the RTSP
> server, so after 1 minute an Axis 213 camera will assume the client is
> dead and stop sending data.  Spook will last about 20 seconds.

I ran into the same issue some time ago and I confirm that your diagnostic is right.
My feeling about this was that this wasn't easily and cleanly fixable without a huge
refactoring of the FFmpeg rtp/rtsp layer (client AND server).

Maybe one day if I found the motivation in me (or if anyone didn't do it before
me ;-), I will try to do this.

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