Video on Demand: RTSP vs HTTP

11 February 2008

Disclaimer

Rémi still hasn’t any RSS feed, so here is another article about protocol.

This article is not my production

VoD

For those who don’t know him, Rémi is, between many other stuffs, the network expert in VideoLAN team.

On his personal website__

Here is a copy-paste of his introduction

As a developper of VLC media player, I often get to see people wonder ing whether they should use RTSP or HTTP to stream their audio or audio/video content. Even though I like open standards (which the IETF champions), I cannot say I am a big fan of RTSP.

Remark

N.B.: this article is concerned about video-on-demand. For live streaming, there may be more reasons to prefer RTSP over HTTP.

Jean-Baptiste Kempf

Comments

  1. On 30 May 30300, 8:21 by video surveillance

    Thank you Pierre d’Herbemont

  2. On 30 May 30300, 12:33 by Ivan

    Good morning everyone, could someone please explain me a little bit more in detail why RTSP is considered better than HTTP in live streaming?
    I thank you so much in advance, and I look forward for your reply.

  3. On 11 May 11110, 11:08 by JBK

    Fixed. It worked here, btw.

  4. On 11 May 11110, 4:37 by Pierre d'Herbemont

    Note: “personal website” link doesn’t work:
    Use www.remlab.net.