RTSP/HTTPS support with TLS

[badgeror]

Hi
A long time ago (2006) the question of support for RTSP over HTTPS had been asked and debunked as not useful...
Since then the ONVIF protocol has issued the following guidelines: https://www.onvif.org/specs/stream/ONVI ... g-Spec.pdf especially section 5.1.1.4 which specifies that if a device supports TLS, RTSP streaming should be done over HTTPS (all data encrypted to go through this tunnel)

So the question is back : is there any plan to support this in libVLC/VLC?

Thanks
Sebastien

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

RTSP over X over TCP is not useful. If you use TCP with all its streaming problems, you are better off with HTTP, than RTSP, which will combine the problems of both TCP and RTSP.

[badgeror]

Indeed but some people are keen on encrypting all traffic, hence the use for RTSP over HTTPS... but I guess your answer means it's not supported by VLC

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Use HTTPS directly.

[badgeror]

Digging back this question as Ffmpeg now can be compiled with OpenSSL support giving it direct support for RTSP over TLS
Apparently it's also part of the RTSP 2.0 RFC (https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis-33.html#rfc.section.19.2)
So once again same question : do you plan on addin gthis support in libvlc anytime soon? or should I go with a custom build to support it?
Cheers
Sebastien

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Implementing RTSP 2.0 is several man-years of work. This has been a known problem for over a decade now (yes, the drafts are that old). Nobody has wanted to wait for that long and even less to pay for it.

[badgeror]

I can totally relate to that. So i guess the only way forward on this problem is to use FFMPEG? as latest version support RTSP over HTTPS and RTSPS