RTSPdump

Are you stumped by error messages from all open source video playing tools when you try to access a MMS or RTSP form URL? (See examples of such error messages below.)

You are probably trying to access a Windows Media Server that nowadays only supports RTSP traffic; the old MMS protocol is discarded.

The catch is, being Microsoft, they have used a RTSP-like implementation, which is modified with Microsoft's own quirks. So it is not standard form anymore.

RTSPdump can be run on Linux, Windows, and practically any OS where command-line PHP can be run.

Features:

• Supported features:
• Streaming from Microsoft WMServer (STABLE)
• Streaming from DSS (Darwin Streaming Server) (EXPERIMENTAL)
• UDP streaming (default)
• TCP streaming
• RTX: Requesting resending of lost RTP packets (UDP only)
• Saving to a file
• Feeding another program through stdout
• Keep-alives (both UDP and TCP; contrary to MS docs, they are also required in TCP mode)
• Timeshifting
• Unsupported features:
• Streaming from other types of RTSP servers
• Streaming using other protocols than RTSP
• Listener reports (not required in MS-RTSP)
• Pausing
• Seeking
• Forward error correction (FEC)
• Bandwidth estimation
• Any authentication schemes
• Switching between streams
• Recovering from loss of connection / resuming a previous download
• Re-encoding / non-ASF containers (please pipe the output to MEncoder/ffmpeg if you need to do that)

What is new in this release:

• This version improves the support for Microsoft Windows Streaming Servers.
• It also adds support for seeking to a particular position in the stream.

Requirements:

• PHP