Name

rtspd - RTSP streaming media server

Synopsis

rtspd [-s serverroot] [-v [-o tracefile]] [-X] [-p port]

Availability

Licensing is available from SIPcomm. The code runs on Solaris, FreeBSD 3.x, Linux, Windows NT, with other Unix platforms available upon request.

Description

rtspd is a RTSP streaming media server.

The server is configured through the file rtspd.conf. The location of the configuration file can be specified via the -s command line parameter.

Features

• RTSP (RFC 2326) implementation
• playback and recording of G711 Mu law (.au files);
• can deliver data to unicast address;
• Sun .au files;
• multi-threaded;
• portable across Unix and Windows NT;
• Works with Apple QuickTime client;

Features not tested

• random positioning in stream;
• deliver data to multicast addresses;
• wav and Apple QuickTime files;

Configuration

DocumentRoot pathname

The path name of the document root. All the RTSP documents are accessed with this as the top level directory. For example, if this is set to /usr/local/rtsp then rtsp://<server-address>/abc.au represent the file /usr/local/rtsp/abc.au.

ServerRoot pathname

Defines the location of the server configuration files, typically "."; rtspd.conf and mime.types should be present in this directory.

CNAME canonicalname_of_user

The CNAME to be used in RTCP packets.

Options

-s serverroot

Top level directory for the server to look for the configuration file. Default is currect directory.

-v

Makes the server print out debugging information to stdout.

-o tracefile

Debugging information is printed out to the specified tracefile.

-X

Run in single-process mode, for internal debugging purposes only; the daemon does not detach from the terminal.

-p port

Overrides the default port.

Notes

See Also

RTSP

Authors

Henning Schulzrinne, Kundan Singh, and Jonathan Lennox at Columbia University, Department of Computer Science

Acknowledgements

Copyright

Copyright 1998-2001 by Columbia University; all rights reserved

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Last updated by Henning Schulzrinne