On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:54:07AM +1100, fish wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Ian Clarke wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:53:23PM +0000, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > > > Obviously, we will be using RTSP in TCP mode - duh!
> > > The clients support this? LOL!
> 
> yes, udp is not the automagic pancea in streaming that everyone hoped ^_^.
> 
> > Some do - the point is that we would use a TCP based protocol, whether 
> > or not it is RTSP is beside the point.
> 
> as i understand it, btw, there is very little advntage to us using RTSP
> for this task - most of the useful niceties that rtsp provides, imnsho,
> are really more useful for the streaming over the internet part, rather
> than the streaming to localhost part :-p
> 
> i'm sure we could have a long and protracted flamewar over this, so i'm
> going to try and skip that by saying that if someone gives me a really
> good reason to implent RTSP, i'll do it, but the reason has to be
> something other thawn "rtsp is what you use for streaming"
AFAICS, the reason is "because that's what icecast and realplayer/xmms
use".
> 
>       - fish
> 
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