Commit 02a1a28c authored by Martin Storsjö's avatar Martin Storsjö

doc: Update the documentation on setting options for RTSP

Signed-off-by: 's avatarMartin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
parent 9867aea5
......@@ -246,12 +246,15 @@ supporting it (currently Darwin Streaming Server and Mischa Spiegelmock's
The required syntax for a RTSP url is:
@example
rtsp://@var{hostname}[:@var{port}]/@var{path}[?@var{options}]
rtsp://@var{hostname}[:@var{port}]/@var{path}
@end example
@var{options} is a @code{&}-separated list. The following options
The following options (set on the @file{avconv}/@file{avplay} command
line, or set in code via @code{AVOption}s or in @code{avformat_open_input}),
are supported:
Flags for @code{rtsp_transport}:
@table @option
@item udp
......@@ -261,21 +264,25 @@ Use UDP as lower transport protocol.
Use TCP (interleaving within the RTSP control channel) as lower
transport protocol.
@item multicast
@item udp_multicast
Use UDP multicast as lower transport protocol.
@item http
Use HTTP tunneling as lower transport protocol, which is useful for
passing proxies.
@item filter_src
Accept packets only from negotiated peer address and port.
@end table
Multiple lower transport protocols may be specified, in that case they are
tried one at a time (if the setup of one fails, the next one is tried).
For the muxer, only the @code{tcp} and @code{udp} options are supported.
Flags for @code{rtsp_flags}:
@table @option
@item filter_src
Accept packets only from negotiated peer address and port.
@end table
When receiving data over UDP, the demuxer tries to reorder received packets
(since they may arrive out of order, or packets may get lost totally). In
order for this to be enabled, a maximum delay must be specified in the
......@@ -291,13 +298,13 @@ Example command lines:
To watch a stream over UDP, with a max reordering delay of 0.5 seconds:
@example
avplay -max_delay 500000 rtsp://server/video.mp4?udp
avplay -max_delay 500000 -rtsp_transport udp rtsp://server/video.mp4
@end example
To watch a stream tunneled over HTTP:
@example
avplay rtsp://server/video.mp4?http
avplay -rtsp_transport http rtsp://server/video.mp4
@end example
To send a stream in realtime to a RTSP server, for others to watch:
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