I know that the AVURLAsset class doesn't directly support the RTSP scheme. It also doesn't provide me with any way to integrate the video stream into AVFoundation, so I'm on my own as far as saving the stream to a file, transcoding it, etc.Ģ.

This provides a crude player, but performance is poor, most likely because ffmpeg can't take advantage of any hardware acceleration. Using an iOS build of the open-source ffmpeg library, which supports RTSP, I've come up with a test app that can receive the RTSP packets, decode them, create UIImages out of the frames, and display those frames on-screen. Having read everything I can get my hands on and exploring third-party and open-source solutions, I've compiled the following list of ideas:ġ.

This won't work for me because my application needs to function in an environment where there is no internet access (it's on a private Wifi network where the only other thing on the network is the device that is serving the RTSP stream).

It seems to me that this is a very similar thing, and that all of the underpinnings for doing it ought to be present in iOS, but I'm having a devil of a time figuring out how to make it work without doing a lot of programming.įor starters, I know that there are web-based services that can consume an RTSP stream and rebroadcast it as an HTTP Live Stream that can be easily consumed by the media players in iOS. Unfortunately, I need to consume media from an RTSP server. It seems like it's pretty easy to consume HTTP Live Streaming content in an iOS app.

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