The Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) is a network control protocol designed for use in entertainment and communications systems to control streaming media servers. The protocol is used for establishing and controlling media sessions between end points. Clients of media servers issue VCR-style commands, such as play and pause, to facilitate real-time control of playback of media files from the server.
The transmission of streaming data itself is not a task of RTSP. Most RTSP servers use the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) in conjunction with Real-time Control Protocol (RTCP) for media stream delivery. However, some vendors implement proprietary transport protocols. The RTSP server software from Real5Networks, for example, also used RealNetworks' proprietary Real Data Transport (RDT).
RTSP was developed by RealNetworks, Netscape and Columbia University, with the first draft submitted to IETF in 1996. It was standardized by the Multiparty Multimedia Session Control Working Group (MMUSIC WG) of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and published as RFC 2326 in 1998. RTSP 2.0 is currently under development as a replacement of RTSP 1.0. RTSP 2.0 is based on RTSP 1.0 but is not backwards compatible other than in the basic version negotiation mechanism.
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by: DevilleLost in your eyes this betrayal it consumes me makes
Me blind to all the times i've been let down
Now with these thoughts i hide away in my world
From your apathy it's killing me, it's forever
Can't you see the walls are falling down on me
They're closing in can't breathe and life itself
Is killing me one more life, i'll waste it why can't
You help me through this please give me, one more
Chance and i'll get it right i sweat it
Thoughts of the past drown in my mind, real time
Seems so far how could i not see this through
So leave me behind for the times that i left you