On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:48:06PM +0200, Stas Oskin wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I posted it to the 2 lists, as I'm not sure whether it goes to users
> with configuration options, or developers with the possible bugs.
>
> Anyhow, I compared the overall experience of playing mpeg4 media both
> over RTSP (using Darwin 6.0.3), and over regular HTTP (using Apache),
> with players QuickTime and VLC.
>
> >From my own impression, playing over HTTP produces significant
> advantages:
>
> * Movie does not break/pixalates during seeks
That would be a client QoI issue.
> * Fast-forward/slow-down is supported
Again, client issue.
> * No need to hint the files
True, but the files still need to be post-processed to shift the moov
atom--which contains the sample tables--from the end to the beginning of the
file. Although, this isn't necessarily needed technically, AFAIK not all
common clients have the smarts to do this correclty (i.e. stream parse the
MOV file, and use HTTP/1.1 byte-range requests to skip the mdat section when
loading the meta-data).
> Moreover, the RTSP behaved quite unstable for me, the playback hanged
> several times after seek, and only resumed after I did a seek again.
> Also, the seeking slider sometimes jumped to points completely unrelated
> to where it was actually dragged.
Client issue. Did this happened for _both_ QuickTime and VLC?
> Can someone share some of his/her thoughts on the matter? What VOD
> approach do you use?
I use all of them.
Since you contexualized this as video-on-demand, then all I can say is that
perhaps you should just use HTTP.
Reasons to use RTSP: Live streaming; delivery to 90% of the cellphone market
which only support RTSP; video modifications on-the-fly; arguably better
performance on poorer networks (i.e., if you prefer pixelation rather than
pausing & skipping).
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