[MPlayer-dev-eng] Removing librtsp?

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 04:46:04PM -0400, compn wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:39:18 +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> >Hello,
> >Due to coverity I looked at stream/librtsp again, and the code has me
> >already scared after a few minutes.
> >So was wondering if there was any use for it.
> >We disable it anyway if compiling against libnemesi for example,
> >and I believe FFmpeg also comes with a rtsp implementation we can use.
> >Does anyone have any experience with/knowledge about that?
> 
> i am fine with getting rid of librtsp.
> the ffmpeg code is maintained at least.
> 
> i have not tested the ffmpeg://rtsp:// with all of the rtsp samples
> outlined here: http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=RTSP
> 
> it would be nice to test vs librtsp to see if there were any
> streams which dont work. did xine ever update their copy (the
> copyright of librtsp mentions ours is a port)?
> 
> librtsp doesnt support the ms- rtsp://wmv streams. ffmpeg seems to fail
> as well. i thought it was working at one point?
> 
> does getting rid of librtsp keep the rtsp detection of realrtsp vs the
> standard rtsp ? i dont know where that code is.
> 
> mplayer ffmpeg://rtsp://132.195.249.65/33riedl.rm does not work.
> and i'm guessing none of the real-rtsp will.

Yes, I realized only afterwards that the realrtsp code depends on it.
Probably would make sense to try getting it merged into FFmpeg, but
I think I probably won't have time to do it.