[FFmpeg-soc] [RFC] rtsp http tunneling implementation

[Martin Storsjö]

On Sat, 29 May 2010, Martin Storsjö wrote:

> On Fri, 28 May 2010, Josh Allmann wrote:
> 
> > Since RTSP over HTTP basically involves a few http request-replies and
> > base64-encoding RTSP into a HTTP POST, I have the following thoughts:
> > 
> > -Add HTTP as a lower transport mechanism in rtsp.c
> 
> IMO, it isn't a lower transport mechanism, since it's orthogonal to them. 
> You can run the RTSP session either as normal, or tunneled over HTTP - and 
> in both cases you can send the RTP packets over UDP or interleaved in the 
> RTSP session.

On second note - even while what I said above is true, the whole point of 
HTTP tunneling usually is to avoid having to send RTP packets over UDP. So 
if HTTP mode is enabled, I guess we want to make that select TCP as lower 
transport mode, to enable interleaving. Technically, I guess one could do 
RTP/UDP even if the RTSP session is tunneled over HTTP, but it doesn't 
make much sense.

// Martin