Working, standard RTSP servers for Linux?

mwoodiupui

What is everybody using to serve up standard audio and video formats via RTSP?

Everything I've tried so far either doesn't work at all (fenice), doesn't handle even one each of audio and video formats (Helix DNA Server), or isn't really standard (Darwin Streaming Server) since it requires that content be adulterated with proprietary goop.

I'm looking for one server that will be understood by the most widely found players, which probably means Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, and QuickTime. I don't need Internet Radio features or any of that stuff; I just need to serve content from the beginning to each individual client as requested.

amasidlover · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:48 pm Post subject:

Since no-one's replied yet I'll come back to Darwin - we use Darwin with mp4live (part of mpeg4ip) we haven't needed to do anything to the content that is specific to Darwin, and I'm not aware of Darwin doing anything to the content...

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mwoodiupui

Sounds like you're streaming live content? We're looking to provide previously recorded audio/video on demand. For recorded matter, the DSS doc.s say the recording has to have been built with QuickTime Pro, or at least passed through it to provide "hinting". Maybe it's just a case of Apple, as usual, thinking QuickTime == Universe, and there's something else (like, for example, a commandline utility we can pipe through when adding content to the archive) that would make recordings acceptable to DSS? Maybe I need a place to learn more about standard AV formats?

amasidlover · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:25 pm Post subject:

You're right we use it for live content. I know mp4live definitely adds hinting - but this (as far as I know) is a standard feature of mpeg streaming. I believe mp4creator (again part of mpeg4ip) can do hinting of mp4 files - not sure about other files but I would think vlc or transcode should be able to it. When we did the original set-up 2 (or 3) years ago documentation was pretty sparse - the VLC forums were good, the Darwin mailing lists were good, but apart from that we were left guessing.

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amasidlover · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:27 pm Post subject:

Forgot to say, vlc can do streaming (actually its vls that does the streaming, but still...) I couldn't get it to work with live content, but you might have more luck...
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