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RTSP
The Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) enables the control of streaming media servers, allowing clients to remotely control playback of media content such as video or audio streams in real time. Widely utilized in IP cameras and multimedia streaming solutions, RTSP facilitates commands like play, pause, and record, making it an essential component of streaming infrastructures..
RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol) is a network control protocol used to establish and manage media sessions between endpoints, such as between surveillance cameras or media servers and clients. It operates at the application layer and is designed to control streaming media servers, providing functions similar to a remote control.
RTSP enables clients to issue commands like DESCRIBE, SETUP, PLAY, PAUSE, and TEARDOWN to media servers. This protocol simplifies the management of continuous media delivery, allowing dynamic control over the delivery of multimedia content. It supports both TCP and UDP as transport protocols, ensuring flexibility depending on network requirements or constraints.
Typically, RTSP works in conjunction with underlying protocols like RTP (Real-time Transport Protocol) for data delivery and RTCP (Real-Time Control Protocol) for control information. RTSP does not itself deliver the media stream but rather controls how it is sent from the server to the client, making it the signaling protocol in a streaming setup.