# Streaming to QuickTime and/or other RTSP Players
**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [December 31, 2009, 10:54am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090 "2009-12-31T10:54:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Jeffrey\_Riedmiller](https://community.wowza.com/u/Jeffrey_Riedmiller)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2009, 10:54am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/1 "2009-12-31T10:54:54Z")
Hello Everyone:
I downloaded Media Server v2.0.0 build 22912 to begin the process of testing some of our latest codec developments for streaming applications. (Note: I apologize, but I am fairly new to the low-level details around streaming protocols, architectures, embedding media in browsers, etc… (I come from the audio coding & signal processing (DSP) world :))
I can stream to iPhone without any issues (as per the Wowza MS2 Quick Start via HTTP using port 1935). To do this, I have created an Wiki page and then populate the page with media links that point to the Wowza install directory/conf/myApp… when I select the link the streaming server begins streaming to the iPhone and plays fine.
However, I am having trouble with streaming to a QuickTime player on another machine on the subnet. (via RTSP port 554 or via HTTP via port 1935). When I open the following URL on QT ([http://192.168.1.108:1935/myApp/mp4:Extremists.m4v/playlist.m3u8](http://192.168.1.108:1935/myApp/mp4:Extremists.m4v/playlist.m3u8)) The Wowza Streaming Engine responds with:
INFO cupertino connect 1090978552 -
INFO stream create Extremists.m4v -
But, QT responds with “Alert The URL is no valid” (I configured QT for port 1935 via HTTP and have tried other URL variants w/o the .m3u8 tag/file, etc… without luck)
Also tried, RTSP via port 554 included the playlist.m3u8… without any luck. QT launches fine but indicates the connection failed and the live b’cast is paused. However, I noticed the following in the Wowza console:
INFO vhost comment _defaultVHost_ Bind attempt ([any]:554)
WARN vhost comment _defaultVHost_ Bind failed: ([any]:554): java.net.SocketException: Permission denied
I am not sure why the bind failed with port 554(?) (I don’t have any (known) port restrictions and have admin rights to the source server). Port 1935 binding was successful.
Note: my application.xml stream type is: rtp-live for the RTSP trial and default for the HTTP trials. These settings have not impacted my ability to play the media on the iPhone. (?)
I looked through the forums to try and resolve my issues but have not come across any threads that seem related.
I deeply appreciate any insight experts may have.
Also, are there better methods to simultaneously allow streaming to both mobile devices (iPhones, etc) and local PC machines (using a browser with QT, etc)?
Thank you.
Jeffrey
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### Author:  [@Marko\_Panc](https://community.wowza.com/u/Marko_Panc)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/2 "2010-02-19T14:02:56Z")
Im stuck with mov VOD streaming over quicktime palyer too. The mov files plays well over flash player but not over quicktime player.
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### Author:  [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 10:43am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/3 "2010-02-19T10:43:41Z")
Some other application is binding to port 554. It could be Windows Media Server or Darwin. They need to be shutdown so that Wowza can bind to that port.
Also, be sure UDP ports 6970-9999 are fully open on your router/firewall.
Also, see this post:
[https://www.wowza.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7870](https://www.wowza.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7870)
you might also try VideoLAN VLC as an RTSP player:
[https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-vlc-media-player-for-rtsp-rtp-playback-rtsp-rtp-interleaved-and-tuning](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-configure-vlc-media-player-for-rtsp-rtp-playback-rtsp-rtp-interleaved-and-tuning)
Charlie
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### Author:  [@Charlie\_Good](https://community.wowza.com/u/Charlie_Good)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 11:12am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/4 "2010-02-19T11:12:09Z")
Did you see the links I posted? Have you opened the UDP ports? Have you tried VLC? Have you tried VLC with RTSP/RTP over TCP? Post the section from the logs where you are trying to connect. That will most likely give us a clue. Also, post the RTSP URL you are using.
Charlie
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/5 "2010-02-19T13:06:35Z")
The problem is that video on demand over RTSP is not supported yet.
Richard
_ **UPDATE:** [Video On Demand over RTSP/RTP is now available in the latest version](https://www.wowza.com/store.html)_
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Lanham](https://community.wowza.com/u/Richard_Lanham)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/6 "2010-02-19T13:22:12Z")
Not that I know of.
Richard
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### Author:  [@Marko\_Panc](https://community.wowza.com/u/Marko_Panc)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/7 "2010-02-19T14:15:28Z")
I presume there is no way of getting quicktime player to accept a http stream? like [http://wowza-ip:1935?](http://wowza-ip:1935?)
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### Author:  [@Pip\_Nason](https://community.wowza.com/u/Pip_Nason)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 10:29am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/8 "2010-02-19T10:29:45Z")
I am finding that Quicktime Player is just sitting at “Connecting”.
Following the userguide I’ve changed the Port settings in the Vhost.XML and added 554.
I’m running the server locally on my Mac.
Getting the following bind error:
INFO vhost comment _defaultVHost_ Bind attempt ([any]:554)
WARN vhost comment _defaultVHost_ Bind failed: ([any]:554): java.net.SocketException: Permission denied
Any ideas?
Ta
Pip
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### Author:  [@Pip\_Nason](https://community.wowza.com/u/Pip_Nason)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 10:57am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/9 "2010-02-19T10:57:53Z")
Found something that said about root only binding to ports below 1000.
I was starting the server from the startup link in the mac applications folder. Your notes say the default user for OS X is root - but it wasn’t. Started it from terminal with a sudo before the ./startup.sh
Thats got rid of the 554 bind error.
Still having no luck what so ever getting Quicktime player to play the rtsp stream? Any ideas where to start finding where the problem is.
If I try to connect to a deliberately bad address the player tells me. So I’m guessing the lack of an error but a continuous “Connecting” means it is trying to connect to something it knows exists?
Thanks
Pip
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### Author:  [@Pip\_Nason](https://community.wowza.com/u/Pip_Nason)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2010, 11:40am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/10 "2010-02-19T11:40:52Z")
I checked the links. On a mac with QT Player 10… so don’t seem to have any preferences for QT anymore!
UDP ports? - Player/Broadcaster/ Machine are all localhost - no firewall installed?
Have tried VLC - don’t understand it most of the time - but it’s not working either.
Url I am using is rtsp://localhost:1935/live/mystream.sdp
Access log looks like this:
2010-02-19 19:33:38 GMT connect rtsp INFO 200 1230424904 - _defaultVHost_ live _definst_ 963.519 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0 554 rtsp://localhost:1935/live/mystream.sdp 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0 rtsp - QuickTime/7.6.3 (qtver=7.6.3;cpu=IA32;os=Mac 10.6.2) 1230424904 0 0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - rtsp://localhost:1935/live/mystream.sdp -
2010-02-19 19:33:38 GMT announce rtsp INFO 200 1230424904 - _defaultVHost_ live _definst_ 963.521 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0 554 rtsp://localhost:1935/live/mystream.sdp 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0 rtsp - QuickTime/7.6.3 (qtver=7.6.3;cpu=IA32;os=Mac 10.6.2) 1230424904 0 0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - rtsp://localhost:1935/live/mystream.sdp -
2010-02-19 19:33:38 GMT create stream INFO 200 - - _defaultVHost_ live _definst_ 0.0 - - - - - - - - - - 4 0 0 0 - - - - - - - - - - -
2010-02-19 19:33:38 GMT stop stream INFO 200 mystream.sdp - - - - 937.612 - - - - - - - - - - 1 54755 0 18873716 mystream.sdp - - - - - rtmp://localhost/live/mystream.sdp rtmp://localhost/live/mystream.sdp - - -
2010-02-19 19:33:38 GMT publish stream INFO 200 mystream.sdp - _defaultVHost_ live _definst_ 0.049 - - - - - - - - - - 4 0 0 0 mystream.sdp - - - - - /mystream.sdp /mystream.sdp - - -
2010-02-19 19:33:38 GMT publish rtsp INFO 200 1230424904 - _defaultVHost_ live _definst_ 963.623 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0 554 rtsp://localhost:1935/live/mystream.sdp 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0 rtsp - QuickTime/7.6.3 (qtver=7.6.3;cpu=IA32;os=Mac 10.6.2) 1230424904 0 0 - - - - - - - - - - - - - rtsp://localhost:1935/live/mystream.sdp -
2010-02-19 19:33:43 GMT play stream INFO 200 mystream.sdp - _defaultVHost_ live _definst_ 942.717 [any] 1935 rtmp://localhost/live 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0 rtmp unknown MAC 10,0,32,18 1744975334 3819 18905511 1 0 0 18873716 mystream.sdp - - - - - rtmp://localhost/live/mystream.sdp rtmp://localhost/live/mystream.sdp - rtmp://localhost/live -
2010-02-19 19:34:55 GMT stop stream INFO 200 mystream.sdp - _defaultVHost_ live _definst_ 1015.257 [any] 1935 rtmp://localhost/live 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0 rtmp unknown MAC 10,0,32,18 1744975334 3876 32397486 1 75510 0 32348258 mystream.sdp - - - - - rtmp://localhost/live/mystream.sdp rtmp://localhost/live/mystream.sdp - rtmp://localhost/live -
2010-02-19 19:34:55 GMT destroy stream INFO 200 mystream.sdp - _defaultVHost_ live _definst_ 1015.257 [any] 1935 rtmp://localhost/live 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0 rtmp unknown MAC 10,0,32,18 1744975334 3876 32397486 1 - 0 32348258 mystream.sdp - - - - - rtmp://localhost/live/mystream.sdp rtmp://localhost/live/mystream.sdp - rtmp://localhost/live -
2010-02-19 19:34:55 GMT disconnect session INFO 200 1744975334 - _defaultVHost_ live _definst_ 1015.297 [any] 1935 rtmp://localhost/live 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0 rtmp unknown MAC 10,0,32,18 1744975334 3876 32397486 - - - - - - - - - - - - - rtmp://localhost/live -
Ta
Pip
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### Author:  [@Zoran](https://community.wowza.com/u/Zoran)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2013, 9:15am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/11 "2013-07-10T09:15:37Z")
Hi,
It looks like Wowza couldn’t bind to ports 554 and 80, most probably because you have other services running that are using those ports.
Did you try adding the Wowza port to the streaming URL during your test?
It should work if you use an URL of this type: rtsp://wowza\_ip:1935/appName/_definst_/streamName
Regards,
Zoran
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### Author:  [@Zoran](https://community.wowza.com/u/Zoran)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/12 "2013-07-10T15:26:23Z")
Hi,
Did you follow the instructions from this article? [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-re-stream-video-from-an-ip-camera-rtsp-rtp-re-streaming](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-re-stream-video-from-an-ip-camera-rtsp-rtp-re-streaming)
What is your application StreamType? Are you using the StreamManager to publish the IP camera stream or you are using the rtp-live StreamType?
Using VLC or QuickTime, can you connect to your IP camera RTSP stream directly?
Regards.
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### Author:  [@Zoran](https://community.wowza.com/u/Zoran)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2013, 4:53pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/13 "2013-07-10T16:53:10Z")
Assuming that you have followed all the configuration instructions from the article you have mentioned, after placing your camera.stream file in the [install-dir]/content folder, you should connect to the StreamManager page and follow these steps (also described in the article you followed )
> - Enter the following URL in a web browser:
>
> URL: http://[wowza-ip-address]:8086/streammanager
>
> - In the Security dialog box, enter your admin username and password.
>
> - In the Stream Manager webpage, click the [start-receiving-stream] link just below the live application folder.
>
> - In the Start Receiving Stream dialog box, select the following MediaCaster Type option: rtp
>
> - In the Stream Name field, enter camera.stream.
>
> - Click OK.
>
> After the IP camera stream is successfully published, in the RTMP player you mentioned you will need to use this:
>
> Server: rtmp://WowzaIP/live
>
> Stream: camera.stream
>
> To play the stream in VLC or QuickTime, you should use: rtsp://WowzaIP:1935/live/_definst_/camera.stream
>
> Zoran
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### Author:  [@Zoran](https://community.wowza.com/u/Zoran)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2013, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/14 "2013-07-10T17:00:02Z")
I thought you are trying to connect to an IP camera.
Are you using your iPhone to publish a stream to Wowza? or are you using Wowza to pull the stream from your iPhone?
Can you paste in the contents of your camera.stream file?
Regards,
Zoran
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### Author:  [@Zoran](https://community.wowza.com/u/Zoran)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2013, 5:31pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/15 "2013-07-10T17:31:07Z")
You are right to use the camera.stream file. SO, if you follow earlier instructions, it should work.
Place the camera.stream file in the content folder.
Start publishing the stream with Stream Manager.
Play back the stream from the Wowza server using the RTMP flash player or directly with VLC player.
Zoran
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### Author:  [@Zoran](https://community.wowza.com/u/Zoran)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/16 "2013-07-10T17:37:42Z")
> Hi,
>
> I followed the steps mentioned by you and I selected ‘Media caster Type’ as ‘rtp’ and Stream Name as camera.stream and as soon as I press ok, the terminal shows that the stream is received but is also timed out and when I try to play the video in the Flash player as suggested by you I get these messages in the terminal through the whole process. I have highlighted the message in **bold** that appear when I click ‘Connect’ in the Flash PLayer.
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.Reconnector[1198409461:live/definst:camera.stream]: done: 1_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.streamTimeout[1198409461:live/definst:camera.stream]: timeout:12000 diff:12023 reason:101_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.resetConnection[1198409461:live/definst:camera.stream]:_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.closeRTPSession[1198409461:live/definst:camera.stream]_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasicRTSPWorker.close closeSession_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasicRTSPWorker.onClose_
>
> _INFO stream unpublish camera.stream -_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPSessionTracker.remove[rtsp://144.1.1.137]: 0:true_
>
> _INFO stream destroy camera.stream -_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.Reconnector[1198409461:live/definst:camera.stream]: start: 2_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPSessionTracker.add[rtsp://144.1.1.137]: 1_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasicRTSPWorker.buildSDPData: sessionId:1026413173 sessionTimeout:0_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasic.getStreamInfo[live/definst]: RTSP/RTP re-streaming. Success, received SDP data._
>
> _INFO stream create - -_
>
> _INFO stream publish camera.stream -_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.Reconnector[1198409461:live/definst:camera.stream]: done: 2_
>
> _INFO stream destroy camera.stream -_
>
> _INFO session disconnect 152822890 -_
>
> _ **INFO session connect-pending 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0 -** _
>
> _ **INFO session connect 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1%0 -** _
>
> _INFO stream create - -_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.streamTimeout[1198409461:live/definst:camera.stream]: timeout:12000 diff:12022 reason:101_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.resetConnection[1198409461:live/definst:camera.stream]:_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.closeRTPSession[1198409461:live/definst:camera.stream]_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasicRTSPWorker.close closeSession_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasicRTSPWorker.onClose_
>
> _INFO stream unpublish camera.stream -_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPSessionTracker.remove[rtsp://144.1.1.137]: 0:true_
>
> _INFO stream destroy camera.stream -_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.Reconnector[1198409461:live/definst:camera.stream]: start: 3_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPSessionTracker.add[rtsp://144.1.1.137]: 1_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasicRTSPWorker.buildSDPData: sessionId:452456682 sessionTimeout:0_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasic.getStreamInfo[live/definst]: RTSP/RTP re-streaming. Success, received SDP data._
>
> _INFO stream create - -_
>
> _INFO stream publish camera.stream -_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.Reconnector[1198409461:live/definst:camera.stream]: done: 3_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.streamTimeout[1198409461:live/definst:camera.stream]: timeout:12000 diff:12024 reason:101_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.resetConnection[1198409461:live/definst:camera.stream]:_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPMediaCaster.closeRTPSession[1198409461:live/definst:camera.stream]_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasicRTSPWorker.close closeSession_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPSessionDescriptionDataProviderBasicRTSPWorker.onClose_
>
> _INFO stream unpublish camera.stream -_
>
> _INFO server comment - RTPSessionTracker.remove[rtsp://144.1.1.137]: 0:true_
>
> _INFO stream destroy camera.stream -_
>
> Please let me know what is going wrong.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Manas
It looks like Wowza is not able to connect to the RTSP source coming from your iPhone.
Can you try adding this property to your Application.xml configuration file for your “live” application in order to get some more debugging information? [https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-re-stream-video-from-an-ip-camera-rtsp-rtp-re-streaming#extraLog](https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-re-stream-video-from-an-ip-camera-rtsp-rtp-re-streaming#extraLog)
Did you try publishing the stream to Wowza using the GoCoder iPhone App? You can get it from here: [https://www.wowza.com/addons/gocoder](https://www.wowza.com/addons/gocoder)
Zoran
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### Author:  [@Zoran](https://community.wowza.com/u/Zoran)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/17 "2013-07-12T23:18:07Z")
Hi,
I’m sorry for the late reply.
Can you try forcing Wowza to connect over UDP to your RTSP server running on your iPhone? You can do that by editing your Application.xml file and changing the RTPTransportMode parameter from “interleave” to “udp”.
You can find the parameter in // section.
Regards.
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### Author:  [@Zoran](https://community.wowza.com/u/Zoran)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2013, 10:21am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/18 "2013-07-19T10:21:17Z")
Great.
Thank you for the feedback.
Zoran
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### Author:  [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2013, 6:07am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/19 "2013-07-10T06:07:14Z")
Hi Manas,
Does it work if you put the camera.stream file in your content folder?
[install-dir]/content
Salvadore
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### Author:  [@sal\_jefferson](https://community.wowza.com/u/sal_jefferson)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2013, 9:18am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/streaming-to-quicktime-and-or-other-rtsp-players/34090/20 "2013-07-19T09:18:53Z")
> Hi,
>
> Can you also guide me that how can I save the live RTSP video while it is being streamed live?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Manas
Manas,
The easiest way to do this is to start the stream with MediaCaster type “rtp-record”
Salvadore
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