Re: [xine-devel] Re: Can we create a team to create a new rtsp plugin

[Mike M. <mel...@pc...>]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Ross Finlayson wrote:

> Are you familiar with SDP?  Do you know the difference between static and 
[...]
[...]
[are you familiar with this, that, and the other thing]

	No, not intimately familiar. But I am always eager to learn. I
understand network programming, I know where the RFCs are, and I know how
to use a protocol analyzer.

	Have you ever read the full Quicktime spec? It's big, it's scary,
and it's not entirely necessary to implement 100% of it in order to play
99.9% of all QT files in the wild. xine's QT demuxer does a great job of
playing just about any QT file you can find, even though it implements a
fraction of the total spec.

	My point is that it can't possibly be necessary to implement every
piece of every spec in order to accomodate 99% of the streams out there.
But hang out because I might be wrong. But I sincerely appreciate your
email as it gives me a lot of issues I need to consider in the new
implementation.

	To the standard "reinventing the wheel" critique, allow me to
retort: I have the time and I have the desire, not just for
reimplementation, but also for understanding the concepts. I don't know
much about network multimedia transport and this is a good opportunity to
learn.

	One more thing: Please understand that C++ is "different" than C,
not necessarily "better" by any stretch of the imagination.

	Thanks...
--
	-Mike Melanson