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I have a h.264 transport stream containing b-frames which the vlc player does not recover from packet loss. I can simulate packet loss by disconnecting my ethernet cable for a split second. I've noticed that h.264 video without b-frames recovers on the next i-frame. With the b-frame stream, the vide...

Is there a way to start and stop a UDP (non RTP) multicast stream using RTSP? I have tried using broadcast instead of vod in the setup input command and then have also tried setting the output. See below: new channel broadcast enabled setup channel input Cool.mpg setup channel output #standard{acces...

rossmac,

Looks to me like you have not specified a port for your rtsp session. Port 5554 is the port shown in the example so that is what I used. I believe you need to specify the port in your rtsp commands.

vlc -intf telnet rtsp-host 192.168.1.99:5554

rtsp://192.168.1.99:5554/satin

Commands for the RTSP Server on (XP): vlc --ttl 12 -vvv --color -I telnet --telnet-password videolan --rtsp-host 0.0.0.0:5554 Command issued via telnet to the RTSP Server: new Test vod enabled setup Test input http/Tanken.mpg Client command to access the stream vlc rtsp://server:5554/Test (where ser...

I have been going through the documentation for Chapter 5 "VLM - Multiple streaming and Video on Demand". I have successfully done a VOD session using RTSP as explained. Working off of Windows XP (server) and a Windows 2000 (client) box I have experimented with the RTSP functionality using...