On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Christophe Lemoine < christophe at lemoine-fr.com> wrote: > Thanks for your quick and clear answer. > So, mplayer is definitely not the right choice to build a multi media set > top box....., except if one consider that streaming and RTSP are a mess that > no one needs. > > > Nico Sabbi wrote: > >> Il mercoled? 3 febbraio 2010 15:34:34 Christophe Lemoine ha scritto: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have setup a VOD server using live555 (streaming a MPEG2 TS >>> video, the index file is present). >>> Playing the video stream works fine on both mplayer and vlc. But >>> the issue is with the trick play actions (forward, random seeking, >>> ......): it does not work at all on mplayer (it does on VLC, so the >>> streaming server is ok). I do not get the controls and using the >>> keys (arrows) freeze the video for about a second and then continue >>> playing with some artifacts. >>> >>> Anyone knows how to get the trick play working on mplayer ? >>> >>> Here is what I get in the console when connecting to live555 >>> server: >>> >>> >>> >> >> unsupported. I have no interest in implementing such a mess, maybe someone >> else... maybe not. >> > Rtsp is a (protocol) as the name suggests. When you want to do such things as pauses, skip, fast-forward, etc, you have to send commands over the wire using a handshake. I think this is quite a bit different than how mplayer works but then ti doesn't seem that much (I don't know the code, please pardon my ignorant response). Doesn't a seek translate to just such a command sequence? Why would this be messy? Considering that rtsp is an industry standard, used by (rough guess) 3/4 of all commercial streaming sites it seems that should not be ignored. Again, I am a developer but not an mplayer developer ... /re
