SoC 2009/RTMP Flash Streaming

This project is part of Google Summer of Code 2009. Student: zhigang wang Mentor: Remi Denis-Courmont

RTMP Flash Streaming

Abstract

(Draft) VLC is a wonderful media player and streaming server. Adobe is about to publish the RTMP protocol spec in the first half of this year, so I think it's about time to add and improve flash streaming function in VLC.

Detail

(TODO)

timeline

Before May 23:

1. Read more RTMP protocal documents.

May 23 - July 5:

• RTMP input works half of the time.
  • Fix bug and improve AMF/RTMP message decoder and encoder (I already found it will segment fault in function rtmp_handler_invoke() of modules/access/rtmp/rtmp_amf_flv.c). The source code of gnash project can be referenced to.
  • Fix other bugs in RTMP input.
• VLC can stream FLV over HTTP.
  • FLV Encapsulation over HTTP is not work.
  • MPEG-TS Encapsulation over HTTP with FLV file, the Video can not straming (Audio Only)

July 6 - July 13:

• Mid-term evaluations, Review the function I had implement, and fix the bug which had found.

July 14 - August 9:

• Possibly rewrite from scratch RTMP output (never worked).
  • Totally rewrite the RTMP access output module workflow (Reference to the existed HTTP access output module implement), make the RTMP access output module can listen and handle concurrent requests.
  • Make RTMP access output module successfully handshake with flashplayer.
  • After flashplayer can successfully handshake and invoke connect -> createStream -> play with our RTMP access output module, make sure sending the right packeted flv video to flashplayer (Base on the existed soure code and this doc: http://osflash.org/flv)
  • Pause/Seek/Resume support

August 10 - August 25:

• code review and testing. Fix bugs if necessary.

September 3 - September 9:

• Submitting required code samples to Google