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Date:      Wed, 9 May 2007 20:24:27 -0400
From:      Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live555.com>
To:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: streaming guru needed
Message-ID:  <f06240801c2681654cd5a@[66.80.62.44]>
In-Reply-To: <20070509234434.4CD3B5B2E@mail.bitblocks.com>
References:  <20070509234434.4CD3B5B2E@mail.bitblocks.com>

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>This is not right.  The OP seem to have misunderstood rtsp.
>It has been a while but from what I remember rtsp does not
>have acks as it was designed to work the same way over udp
>and tcp and A/V can tolerate loss of a few packets so no
>sense in having acks.

No, you're the one who's misunderstanding.  RTSP is the 'control 
protocol'.  It always runs over TCP.

The actual audio/video streaming is done using RTP, which is usually 
sent over UDP, but can, optionally, be sent instead over TCP (using 
the same TCP connection that RTSP uses).
-- 

Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/



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