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How to force client to switch RTP transport from UDP to TCP?

If the client wants to watch a stream that is on my RTSP server, it first tries to setup a stream through the UDP protocol. How can I tell it that my server only supports RTP/AVP/TCP and that it should switch transports?

I want to terminate the UDP support on my server, but all the clients first try to SETUP the session over UDP, and later they do so over TCP... and I want to switch them to TCP as soon as possible in RTSP protocol.

How can I do that?

Solution

  • OK one way is to send "400 Bad Request" as the response to the client's SETUP request... and it automatically switches to TCP protocol. This is for RealOne and QuickTime.

    But I am not sure that it will work on all other players since this is a hack.

    Any other ideas? =|