May someone please clarify this? It's not an email asking for help but for clarification about FFmpeg capabilities.
El jue., 18 abr. 2019 17:00, Iñaki Baz Castillo <[email protected]> escribió: > Hi, let me please a basic question that I cannot resolve by reading > the documentation. > > FFmpeg can consume audio/video from a RTP input over UDP protocol. And > it can also consume a RTSP stream. At the end, RTSP is a control > protocol (over TCP) which negotiates the media by means of a SDP. > Audio/video can be transmitted: > > 1) By using a separate UDP "connection" to send RTP packets. > > 2) By sharing the TCP connection for both, control protocol and RTP. > In this case each RTP packet is encapsulated by prepending it with > some bytes as follows: > > | magic number | channel number | embedded data length | RTP packet | > > And it seems that FFmpeg supports both methods 1 and 2 above. > > > My specific questions are the following: > > a) Can FFmpeg receive RTP over TCP **without** RTSP? I mean: just RTP > packets over a TCP connection, encapsulated as above in RTSP or by > using RFC 4571 "Framing RTP over TCP" [1] (which just requires > prepending two bytes indicating the packet length). > > b) If the answer to a) is "yes", can FFmpeg behave as TCP client (and > connect to the remote endpoint from which it will receive RTP over > TCP)? or must it behave as TCP server for receiving RTP? > > > Thanks a lot. > > > > [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4571 > > -- > Iñaki Baz Castillo > <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-user mailing list [email protected] https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe".
