使用live555 streaming media建立RTSP串流伺服器

http://dbmibu.blogspot.com/2011/06/live555-media-serverrtsp.html

Live555 Streaming Media是一套優秀的開放程式碼函示庫，擁有完整的RTSP/RTP實作，除了支援RTP over UDP外，尚支援RTP over RTSP以及RTP/RTSP over HTTP，可用於傳輸多種主流的影音壓縮格式如：H.264、MPEG4、MP3....等。知名的播放軟體VLC的串流功能就是基於此函式庫開發。
利用它我們只要短短幾行程式碼即可建立自己的串流伺服器。

範例程式碼如下：

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#include <liveMedia.hh> #include <BasicUsageEnvironment.hh>   static void announceStream(RTSPServer* rtspServer, ServerMediaSession* sms,                             char const * streamName, char const * inputFileName);     int main( int argc, char ** argv) {      UsageEnvironment* env;        TaskScheduler* scheduler = BasicTaskScheduler::createNew();      env = BasicUsageEnvironment::createNew(*scheduler);        // 1. Create the RTSP server:      RTSPServer* rtspServer = RTSPServer::createNew(*env, 8554, NULL);      if (rtspServer == NULL) {          *env << "Failed to create RTSP server: " << env->getResultMsg() << "\n" ;          exit (1);      }        // 2. Add a H.264 video elementary stream to RTSP server      {          char const * streamName = "h264" ;          char const * inputFileName = "test.h264" ;            ServerMediaSession* sms = ServerMediaSession::createNew(*env,                                                                  streamName,                                                                  streamName,                                                                  "H.264 video" );          sms->addSubsession(H264VideoFileServerMediaSubsession::createNew(*env,                                                                           inputFileName,                                                                           False));          rtspServer->addServerMediaSession(sms);            announceStream(rtspServer, sms, streamName, inputFileName);      }        // 3. Kick-off the server      env->taskScheduler().doEventLoop(); /* Never return */        /* Unreachable */        return 0; }   static void  announceStream(RTSPServer* rtspServer, ServerMediaSession* sms,                              char const * streamName, char const * inputFileName) {      char * url = rtspServer->rtspURL(sms);      UsageEnvironment& env = rtspServer->envir();        env << "\n\"" << streamName << "\" stream, from the file \""          << inputFileName << "\"\n" ;      env << "Play this stream using the URL \"" << url << "\"\n" ;        delete [] url; }

由範例可知，live555的使用方式十分簡單易懂，函式庫編譯連結後的執行檔也非常小巧，比較遺憾的是因為它目前沒有提供與外部編碼器(encoder)連結的功能以致無法擷取即時影音做即時串流，僅能播放預錄的影音檔，這部份的功能有賴函式庫使用者者自行撰寫。這是與GStreamer提供的RTSP server相比較為美中不足的地方，但是對一般使用者來說應該綽綽有餘了。