DESCRIPTION¶ ↑

This is a RTP library that provides the most basic features of the Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP, RFC 3550). While the protocol allows for extensions that define new ways for transporting encoded audio/video, this library doesn’t yet deal with any specific media types. My current goal is simply for transporting a single RTP stream of data and allowing you to inspect its packets.

FEATURES/PROBLEMS¶ ↑

Features:

Receive a single RTP stream over UDP or TCP, unicast or multicast
Parse RTP packet headers
Inspect packets on the fly

Future goals will include:

RTCP
Multiplexed sessions
Decoding of basic audio/video codec headers
Decoding of some popular A/V extension headers (h.264, et al.)
An easy way to hand over your data to an app that will decode your A/V stream(s)
Sending an RTP stream

SYNOPSIS¶ ↑

Streaming to file¶ ↑

With its default settings, an {RTP::Receiver} will open a UDP socket on port 6790, within a Thread, on 0.0.0.0 and capture the data it receives to a file.

receiver = RTP::Receiver.new      # Uses a Tempfile by default
receiver.rtp_port                 # => 6790
receiver.transport_protocol       # => :UDP
receiver.multicast?               # => false
receiver.unicast?                 # => true
receiver.start
sleep 5
receiver.stop
receiver.capture_file.size        # => 20040

To init a Receiver with some other options…

options = {
  rtp_port: 9000,
  transport_protocol: :TCP,
  ip_address: '239.255.255.251',  # Multicast!
  strip_headers: true,            # Strips RTP headers before writing to file
  capture_file: File.new('data.rtp', 'wb')
}
receiver = RTP::Receiver.new(options)
receiver.start
sleep 5
receiver.stop
receiver.capture_file.size        # => 18848

Packet inspecting¶ ↑

To inspect (and do what you like with) packets as they come in…

receiver = RTP::Receiver.new
receiver.start do |packet|
  puts "Sequence number: #{packet.sequence_number}"  # => Sequence number: 2931830
end
sleep 5
receiver.stop
receiver.capture_file.size        # => 0

Notice how no data was written to file when the block was passed to #start. The idea there is to save on I/O; if you’re inspecting packets, it’s not fair to assume you want to save the data to a file. If you do, however, in that case, you can simply do so within the block.

REQUIREMENTS¶ ↑

(Tested) Rubies
- 1.9.2
- 1.9.3
RubyGems:
- bindata
- log_switch

INSTALL¶ ↑

$ gem install rtp

DEVELOPERS¶ ↑

After checking out the source, run:

$ bundle install

This task will install any missing dependencies for you.

turboladen/rtp

rtp¶ ↑