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noknok: Is there anyway you (or anyone reading this) could explain how your daemon works? In particular, I think a lot of people are looking for a way to get RTSP working from behind a router. If I understand correctly, the code you wrote can intercept the RTSP headers and alter them to have a diffe...

tilleke, Thanks for the tip (and for the consolation). It's pretty crazy to see that this person could sustain an RTSP stream using VPN. Maybe there's hope yet. I've been busy over the last month, and had kind of given up on this; but now I see someone with success I'll have to give it another try. ...

Ok, all, here's an update: My latest attempt is to do NAT traversal using a VPN. If I can get OpenVPN up and running, then hopefully this will establish a virtual LAN, and by doing this it will make the problem of accessing the WAN go away. If I can get this work, I'll post the results here. ****UPD...

Rémi, I really do appreciate your responses. From your comments on this forum, and also your website ( http://www.remlab.net/op/vod.shtml ), you seem to be one of the few people capable of answering this thorny question. Also, as promised, I wanted to keep everyone updated on my progress, so that th...

Hi Rémi, Thanks so much for the quick reply. I'm glad we have some progress already! Let me ask for a point of clarification on your response. In the past I've forwarded ports to my home server. I do this the standard way; i.e. going into the router's HTML interface, and selecting certain ports to f...

The short story: I have been trying for several months to build a DIY "Slingbox" that would transmit live TV over the internet. Some parts of this have been difficult, but ultimately it has been relatively easy to assemble the necessary components: old stripped-down computer, cheap captur...