streaming guru needed

[Ross Finlayson]

>This is not right.  The OP seem to have misunderstood rtsp.
>It has been a while but from what I remember rtsp does not
>have acks as it was designed to work the same way over udp
>and tcp and A/V can tolerate loss of a few packets so no
>sense in having acks.

No, you're the one who's misunderstanding.  RTSP is the 'control 
protocol'.  It always runs over TCP.

The actual audio/video streaming is done using RTP, which is usually 
sent over UDP, but can, optionally, be sent instead over TCP (using 
the same TCP connection that RTSP uses).
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
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