Try pulling the video via http with wget or something. Try ports 80, 81, or 8080. Real server has a built in http server that will stream the video from a standard http request for users that are behind restrictive firewalls. Just replace the rtsp:// with http:// and add the port after the ip/hostname. On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 11:07 PM, Mike Hicks wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 21:55, Florin Iucha wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 08:18:43PM -0500, rpgoldman at real-time.com >> wrote: >>> I'm not sure that the BFI solution would actually work. To make it >>> work, the transaction protocol would have to be stateless enough that >>> the real player's interaction with the far end of the stream wouldn't >>> matter. Not very likely, IMHO. >> >> It is UDP and it is steteless. Otherwise their servers would not >> scale. >> >> The only problem might be if there is a timestamp in the (most likely) >> encripted packed. But that could be solved by coding a library that >> would be preloaded for the RealPlayer client and it would serve it >> with >> the bogus time. > > RealPlayer is designed to handle dropped packets, though, which you > generally don't want if you are downloading a file. I think it may be > possible to force a Real client to use TCP instead of UDP, if you > manually configure the transport options on the Transport pane of the > Preferences window (just turn off the "attempt to use UDP" option). > > Forcing TCP to be used might help the client problem you were having, > but I've seen streams that still don't work right (or are worse) with > things set that way. Some realmedia files are just broken anyway.. > > I think I saw some utilities to save RTSP streams, though they would > only save streams that followed the RTSP standard, which neither Real > nor Apple (with Quicktime) do correctly, if I remember right. > > -- > _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Grow your own dope... plant > / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ a person. > \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) > [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] > <signature.asc>