[ale] trouble with rtsp:// and DarwinStreamingServer

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

Daniel Woodard writes:

 > I Having some trouble making rtsp:// connections.

I've had occasional troubles, too.  Of course, I only use it
occasionally.  I wonder what would happen if I used it all the time?

 > 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.

I'm not sure if linux knows how to forward rtsp stuff.  The time's I
wasn't all behind a firewall I had real trouble.

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

Here's what finally worked for me on all platfors:

<EMBED 
scale="tofit"
width="400" height="300"
autoplay="true" 
controller="true" 
type="application/x-rtsp" 
src="http://192.168.1.2/sample.mov" 
qtsrc="rtsp://192.168.1.2/sample.mov"></EMBED>
</body>

The key here was claiming that the src is http protocol, but the qtsrc
says that it is really rtsp.  netscape didn't understand rtsp, I
think.  I believe that this worked even for a java based linux
client.  (Did you know that JMF (Java Media Framework) does
quicktime?)

Hope that helps, some.

--Michael
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