RTSP Support

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RTSP support has recently been added to the Java Media Framework. It enables JMF based clients (both applets and applications) to communicate with RTSP enabled servers and request that the streaming of specified mediafile (video-on-demand).

For example, you can use JMStudio as an RTSP client by opening a URL from the File menu with the following parameters:

rtsp://host:port/mediafile

If the port information is omitted the default RTSP port 554 is assumed.

To construct an RTSP player programmatically, you use the Manager.createPlayer method and pass in an RTSP URL.
 

JMF based clients can connect to standards based RTSP/RTP Servers such as:

• Sun StorEdge Media Central Streaming Server

Version 1.0
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Runs on Sun Solaris
http://www.sun.com
 
• Apple Quicktime Streaming Server

Version 2.0.1
Apple Computers, Inc.
Runs on Mac OS X Server
http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/qtstreaming.html