VLC as RTSP Server
Posted: 14 Jul 2007 11:07
VLC as RTSP server works nicely in my LAN.
The command lines which work are as follows for VLC server (includes video transcoding):
and for VLC client:
However, I have the special need that the url on client side should be without the reference to a file. So it should be just:
The reason is that I have a mobile device client sw which only can play URLs formatted as rtsp://ip:port
I've dropped "/test.sdp" at the server side and it happily starts streaming. However when I test with a VLC client using there is following error:
How can I make it work?
The command lines which work are as follows for VLC server (includes video transcoding):
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:sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=384,width=320,height=240}:rtp{dst=192.168.1.29,port=1234,sdp=rtsp://192.168.1.29:7070/test.sdp}Code: Select all
rtsp://192.168.1.29:7070/test.sdpCode: Select all
rtsp://192.168.1.29:7070I've dropped "/test.sdp" at the server side and it happily starts streaming. However when I test with a VLC client using
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rtsp://192.168.1.29:7070Code: Select all
main debug: looking for access_demux module: 1 candidate
live555 error: describeURL failed (cannot handle DESCRIBE response: RTSP/1.0 404 Not found)
I'll answer it anyway just in case: Try removing "/test.sdp" in your server command line.
Nice to see how you handle a batch of support requests.