Does anybody know why mplayer opens two sockets when stream is requested via RTSP during when it sends the DESCRIBE comand? It sends one request with DESCRIBE rtsp://blah.blah.blah.blah:554/ .. and another without the :554 DESCRIBE rtsp://blah.blah.blah.blah/ .. This causes the server to open two sockets, one kind of lingers around (causing memory leaks and such) and the other is used for subsequent requests. Any thoughts will be helpful.. Thanks, Ratin