> 1. The Obsequieum project provides RTP support but only for multicast. It
> would be nice to have RTP support for unicast as well. Is this just a
> priority choice or are there inherent obstacles to doing RTP for unicast
> (both UDP and TCP)?
Doing unicast RTP over UDP would not be difficult to add to Obs. I've been
talking to Jack/Barath over at icecast and they both have expressed interest
in adding RTP support to icecast. As soon as they working on supporting RTP
over UDP I would change the Obs transmitter to work with unicast as well.
Then icecast could be used to fan out the RTP or to convert it to RTP/TCP or
shoutcast/TCP.
I am trying to avoid duplicating the work the that icecast project is doing.
I would much rather complement them than duplicate them.
> 2. Does the current RTP implementation follow RFC 2250? Are there any
> consideration for optimizations such as those proposed at www.lvn.com?
I hope it does. :-) The RTP implementation in FreeAmp and Obs does not
implement RTCP, but otherwise it should meet RFC 2250. FreeAmp can listen to
a stream that the LiveCaster kicks out... I would love to adopt the
improvements that Ross is talking about on his site. Unfortunately I have
not heard much lately as far as the progress on these proposals.
> 3. Is anyone aware of coordination attempts for the various efforts by
> Obsequieum, Icecast, and others to develop a standarized service for
> streaming MP3 over RTSP/RTP proctocols? The goal would be to provide an
end
> to end MP3 streaming solution that competed with Real and MS, and that was
> open source.
As far as I know there is not much coordination right now. However, Sean
Treadway (formerly of Real) has contacted us recently and he is interested
in creating an OpenSource library for RTSP with the ultimate goal of having
an OpenSource player to compete with Real/Ms. It looks like there is enough
interest to put something like this together...
A while ago we created a mailing list in response to Shoutcast, called
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shoutcast, but icecast beat us to it. We later repurposed that mailing list
towards RTP/RTSP type of stuff. Let's pick this discussion up over there: to
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