Downloading RTSP stream?

[Ross Finlayson]

At 3:03 AM +0000 9/21/09, b. f. wrote:
>Philipp Ost wrote:
>>I've tried it vlc -- works ;-)
>
>At:
>
>  http://www.live555.com/mplayer
>
>they state:
>
>'Note: We now recommend the use of the VLC media player. VLC, like
>MPlayer, uses the "LIVE555 Streaming Media" code for RTSP client
>support, but is generally more reliable than MPlayer.'
>
>but don't provide any information on why they think this is so

I wrote this based on my own personal experience with those two 
applications (VLC and MPlayer), and, in particular, the developers of 
those two applications.  In my opinion, the developers of VLC are 
noticeably more helpful and clued up than the developers of MPlayer. 
(For example, I recall that one of the leading MPlayer developers 
(some clown named Richard Felker) was constantly belitting our 
software because it's written in C++ rather than C.)

MPlayer was also significantly less reliable and harder to use than 
VLC.  Perhaps MPlayer has improved in the last few years, but I've 
seen no reason to choose it over VLC.
-- 

Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/