Re: a quick scan of RTSP for media fragments

On 28 jun 2010, at 10:50, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
[...]
> So, I want to take a step back and summarise some of the things that
> were discussed here and in the wiki and put it into a structure that
> we can use for the spec.

I agree with all of your examples (thanks!), except one:

> Re (1): In RTSP, temporal fragment URIs are provided through the PLAY method:
> 
> a url such as
> 
>   rtsp://example.com/media#t=10,20
> 
> will be executed as a series of the following methods (all shortened
> for readability), data selection provided in the PLAY method:
> 
> * C->S: DESCRIBE rtsp://example.com/media
> * S->C: RTSP/1.0 200 OK (with an SDP description, see wiki)
> * C->S: SETUP rtsp://example.com/media/video
> * S->C: RTSP/1.0 200 OK
> * C->S: SETUP rtsp://example.com/media/audio
> * S->C: RTSP/1.0 200 OK
> * C->S: PLAY rtsp://example.com/media
>            Range: npt=10-20
> * S->C: RTSP/1.0 200 OK
>            Range: npt=9.5-20.1


Why do you use two SETUP commands for separate tracks here? Shouldn't you simply do a single "SETUP rtsp://example.com/media"?
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Received on Tuesday, 29 June 2010 20:12:57 UTC