Have clients register for a RTP stream? Tunnel HTTP?

[Jossnaz]

Hi

I'm doing a project at a university. The university network uses a vpn for the students so when trying to stream with http out of the net it is not working. I can stream video using rtp to the outside web. Is there something i can do? (like tunnel the http transfer so the university firewall cannot detect the stream)

Otherwise is there a workaround? I wonder whether it's possible to run vlc and have clients just get their own rt(s)p stream as soon as they try to connect? Comparable to http where you just specify where to listen and don't define which addresses get the stream... i'm almost certain it's not possible but just in case...

thanks

Jossi

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

You need UDP and TCP through for RTSP to work.

[Jossnaz]

i'm a bit surprised HTTP is not working since i can stream using flash media encoder from inside the university net to outside. fme uses rtmp (tcp) Rtmpt (http) or rtmps (https).... rtmpt does nothing else than using http for tunneling the video stream to come around the firewall if i'm not wrong... so why this is not working is a bit a surprise, no?

[Jossnaz]

in http://www.remlab.net/op/vod.shtml
you wrote:
"HTTP goes through almost any firewall. Even from tightly restricted Intranets, you can always find an outgoing HTTP proxy to use. "

i guess you refer the outgoing http stream from an intranet server to the web. Is it possible in VLC to define this proxy? via:
--http-proxy
works for in and output?

thanks

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

It would not make sense to configure an input HTTP proxy.