[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: UPDATED: A RTSP/ RTP streaming patch for "mplayer"

[Ross Finlayson]

>so, you could emulate old rtp:// behaviour, for people using both live.com
>libs for rtsp and rtp:// for DVB ?
>
>i mean you shouldn't degrade the functionality at all

When the LIVE.COM code is being used, I don't want to allow people to 
continue to say "rtp://...", because, as I've noted, it's a hack that can't 
work for arbitary RTP streams.

However, I do want to make sure that the *functionality* of "rtp://..." - 
for receiving/playing DVB streams - is still present.  I believe that DVB 
streams (which are MPEG-2 Transport Streams, right?) can be received using 
a SDP file of the form

v=0
m=video <port> RTP/AVP 33
c=IN IP4 <address>/255

(Replace <port> with the stream's UDP port number, and <address> with the 
IP multicast address (or, if the stream is unicast, the IP address of the 
sender).)

Alternatively, if the DVB server supports RTSP, the user can just use a 
"rtsp://..." URL.

Trouble is, I currently have no way of testing this.  Can anyone point me 
at a DVB stream that I can test?  (If it's a multicast stream on the public 
MBone, that's OK; I am able to connect to the MBone.)

         Ross.