HP-UX Multimedia Streaming Protocols

hp-ux multimedia streaming protocols white paper
December 2004
conformance to
RFCs
This implementation of MSP on HP-UX 11i v1 and HP-UX 11i v2 conforms to the
following Request for Comments (RFCs):
 RFC 1889 - RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications
 RFC 2326 - Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)
 RFC 2327 – SDP: Session Description Protocol
Figure 1 depicts the architecture of the MSP software that is supported on the
HP-UX 11i v1 and HP-UX 11i v2 operating systems.
figure 1. MSP architecture
Product
architecture
The MSP framework comprises RTSP and SDP modules in the user space and the
RTP and RTCP modules in the kernel space. Applications can use the APIs
provided in the user space MSP library to access the kernel components,
namely, RTP and RTCP.
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