[MPlayer-users] Re: Rtsp support

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:39:59PM -0800, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> >Hmm. afaik xine has some working rtsp:// supoprt for the realmedia streams.
> >dunno how does it work, but last tiem i checked the code it was quite huge
> >(many files, parsers, crypto stuff etc) compared to the pnm:// code.
> 
> Yes, the Xine folks have shown that some RealAudio/RealVideo "rtsp://" 
> streams can be played.  I hope to someday reimplement this as part of the 
> LIVE.COM Streaming Media Code - which will thus make it available for use 
> by MPlayer.

Forgive me for being an anti-C++ bigot, but if Xine has an independent
implementation of rtsp that works better and that's in C, why don't we
import that to MPlayer so we don't have the LIVE.COM dependency?

Rich