From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 21 05:52:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F4E1106566B for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:52:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsf@ns.live555.com) Received: from ns.live555.com (ns.live555.com [4.79.217.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B3A38FC18 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ns.live555.com (localhost.live555.com [127.0.0.1]) by ns.live555.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n8L5M8Me008903 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:22:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsf@ns.live555.com) Received: (from rsf@localhost) by ns.live555.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n8L5M8Q0008898; Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:22:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsf) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:21:43 -0700 To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org From: Ross Finlayson Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: Re: Downloading RTSP stream? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:52:42 -0000 At 3:03 AM +0000 9/21/09, b. f. wrote: >Philipp Ost wrote: >>I've tried it vlc -- works ;-) > >At: > > http://www.live555.com/mplayer > >they state: > >'Note: We now recommend the use of the VLC media player. VLC, like >MPlayer, uses the "LIVE555 Streaming Media" code for RTSP client >support, but is generally more reliable than MPlayer.' > >but don't provide any information on why they think this is so I wrote this based on my own personal experience with those two applications (VLC and MPlayer), and, in particular, the developers of those two applications. In my opinion, the developers of VLC are noticeably more helpful and clued up than the developers of MPlayer. (For example, I recall that one of the leading MPlayer developers (some clown named Richard Felker) was constantly belitting our software because it's written in C++ rather than C.) MPlayer was also significantly less reliable and harder to use than VLC. Perhaps MPlayer has improved in the last few years, but I've seen no reason to choose it over VLC. -- Ross Finlayson Live Networks, Inc. http://www.live555.com/