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title: Watching RTSP Streams on Linux link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/watching-rtsp-streams-on-linux/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 734 created: 2007/03/23 14:03:00 created_gmt: 2007/03/23 14:03:00 comment_status: open post_name: watching-rtsp-streams-on-linux status: publish post_type: post

Watching RTSP Streams on Linux

Real Time Streaming Protocol is an open Internet standard for streaming video programming. It is used by C-SPAN to deliver free streams of it’s public service programming and is supported by both the open source Helix Community and free commercial Real Players.

The Firefox and Mozilla browsers are not always configured to play RTSP as shipped in most Linux distributions. Configuring Mozilla/Firefox to handle this protocol involves typing “about:config” in the address bar and adding a new handler directive by right-clicking on any one of the existing parameters and selecting “new –> string” and then typing “network.protocol-handler.app.rtsp”. Once this is entered, the full path to the Helix or Real Player binary is entered in the next value window (e.g. “/usr/bin/realplay”).