26 Dec 2006

December 26, 2006 1:27 am Sergey Udaltsov General

Streaming media

In order to watch Russian TV over the internet, I am
connecting to one streaming provider which (unfortunately)
broadcasts as RTSP/UDP (well, there is also RTSP/TCP and
RTSP/HTTP but they are unusable – constant buffering is all
I see). So… I found out that neither VLC nor mplayer can
deal with it.

VLC (as far as I can see in the sources) can only work with
RTSP/TCP (I sure filed a ticket in their support system,
let’s see how long it will take to respond).

Mplayer (using live555.com library) supports RTSP/UDP (seems
so), but cannot handle the format X-ASF-PF (which is MS
format, with all fairness).

Gstreamer … “RTSP streams cannot be played yet” – that’s
what I got from totem..

I have to boot to XP in order to use Media Player. Sad sad…

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