VLM and RTSP control from the client

[saker]

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 0.81. I can play an RTSP (VOD) stream. However, I have noticed that none of the GUI controls on my client VLC player seem to affect the RTSP stream except PLAY and STOP.

PAUSE, FAST-FORWARD and REWIND have no affect on an RTSP stream. I can however telnet from my client into the server and start, stop, pause, seek etc. When I do this it starts up a player on the Server and I don't believe it is an RTSP session.

I really want to be able to do this with the client player. Does anyone have any insight into this. Are these features incomplete? When will they be implemented?

Thanks.

[dionoea]

could you provide the commands you use to start the RTSP server and the client ?

[saker]

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 server is the IP address of my client)

Using the above commands allow me to play an RTSP stream. However none of the player controls work except Play and Stop. How can I get Pause to work?

[dionoea]

hum ... that's weird. could you try a nightly build ? ( http://vthr.videolan.org/~videolan )

[__mami2]

I'm using VLC for VOD. At first I was trying the RTSP protocol however after a while I switched to the telnet solution you mentioned. it worked for me and I'm almost satisfied with it.

[rossmac]

Since you have managed to get VLM to stream video I wanted to ask a question about streaming music on demand from VLM.

I am starting VLM using the following command line on a Windows XP SP2 Server. The version of VLC is 0.8.2-test1.

c:\ vlc --intf telnet rtsp-host 192.168.1.99

The VLM server starts without problem I then load both of the following two configuration files:

new MoodyBlues vod enabled
setup MoodyBlues input MoodyBlues.m3u

new satin vod enabled
setup satin input satin.mp3

both configuration files load successfully, and I get the following result when I type a 'show' command into the telnet interface of the VLM module:

Password:
Welcome, Master
> show
show
media : ( 0 broadcast - 2 vod )
MoodyBlues
type : vod
enabled : yes
instances
satin
type : vod
enabled : yes
instances
schedule


When I attempt to access either of the two VOD objects above from a VLC client on another machine using the wxWindows interface and using the 'open network stream' option with the RTSP option selected and the URL set as:

rtsp://192.168.1.99/satin

I get the following error messages:

livedotcom error: PLAY failed No RTSP session is currently in progress
main error: no suitable access module for `rtsp://192.168.1.99/satin'

What am I missing?

/Ross

[saker]

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

[rossmac]

The default port for RTSP is 554, and I confirmed with a portscan that port 554 is responding.

Just to be on the safe side I modified the URL on the VLC client side to

RTSP://192.168.1.99:554/satin

Same result

The live.com library is unhappy with something regarding the RTSP session.

There is about a 125 msec of delay between client and server, what is the timeout limit on RTSP?

Any suggestions?

/Ross

[cqz98]

hello!
I have started using vod, but I can't catch what the document says.

in the command line:

new satin vod enabled
setup satin input satin.mp3

where do I place the file satin.mp3?
thanks!

[dionoea]

you put satin.mp3 in the directory where you launched vlc. You can also specify the full file path (ie /home/dionoea/music/aladin.mp3 or c:\music\something.mp3)

[wade.chen]

I trid with vlc-0.8.2-svn-20050527 for client in windows XP. It cannot pause, and when fast forward or rewind, seens no send any RTSP request to server.

[marksimpkins]

Hi,

we have been trying this and I also noticed that the play, stop and full screen functions work with a VOD video, but not the pause.

Is there any news on this?

Thanks

Mark.