[ale] trouble with rtsp:// and DarwinStreamingServer

[Daniel Woodard]

I also sent this to the QT Darwin Streaming list, but it seems a little
quiet over there...

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I Having some trouble making rtsp:// connections.

I have a stock install of SuSE 6.4 on a PIII500 w/256MB ram. Freshly
installed it on this HD for this experiment.

All computers are behind my firewall, so I don't think that's a problem.

The server is 192.168.1.99 running Apache 1.3.12.

The clients are 192.168.1.60 a G4/450mp running Netscape and a
192.168.1.20 running WinNT and IE5.

The webserver serves pages fine to both clients. Quicktime movies will
play if called from html, they will start to play early, before
completely downloading, but I don't think it's streaming, it's more like
autoplay, where it plays when it thinks the dl will finish first.

DarwinStreamingServer is installed, up and running according to "ps aux"

Default ports are in use.

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I'm using two movies, the sample.mov that came with Darwin, and I made a
hinted 40MB file because the internal network is too fast to notice if
it streams before it plays.

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What I have tried:

leaving Darwin ports at default

setting Darwin port to :80

calling "rtsp://192.168.1.99"

calling "rtsp://192.168.1.99/movie.mov"

On Windows, RealPlayer pops up (surprise surprise), fails, then ask to
configure alternative means, and I let it do so. It tells me TCP
services are ready to go. Who cares, Real can't play Sorenson streaming
anyway.

I open Quicktime player on Windows and enter the URL in the open URL
dialog. It says, connecting, negotiating, and then getting info goes off
and never stops. WinNT registers CPU useage bouncing between 10 and 40%.
Linux shows constant network activity between 0 and about 548k. After a
couple of minutes of this, I quit out.

On Mac, I get a quick kick, "Netscape is unable to locate the server
rtsp:// please check the server name and try again." I get this whether
I enter "rtsp://" "rtsp://192.168.1.99"  or
"rtsp://192.168.1.99/movie.mov"

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Other stuff I have tried involves moving the /usr/movies folder (and
changing the config file) to /usr/local/httpd/htdocs (where the 40MB
plays, but it's only the file streaming, not the server.)

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My problems seem to be narrowed down to two things,
DarwinStreamingServer's default movie folder of "/usr/movies" seems
irrelevant to Apache.

rtsp:// is not valid for anything from my server

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I'm more multimedia than Linux admin, so it could be somthing really
basic with my Linux set-up, though it mostly seems to work.

I could be writing my html calls wrong. The documentation sucks, and I
tried whatever I've found, plus every other combination I could think
of.

I've made http://192.168.1.99:7070/sample.mov calls and lots of
variations.

There's also very little in Deja, Linux groups/boards/sites, etc. I
can't believe more Linux users are not playing around with Darwin
Streaming Server. If there are, where are they hanging out?
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