The Real-Time Streaming Protocol allows to control multimedia streams delivered, for example, via RTP. Control includes absolute positioning within the media stream, recording and possibly device control.
RTSP is a proposed standard (RTSP Resource Center.
The Internet drafts used to create the RFC are also available in other formats:
These can also be found in the archive for MMUSIC drafts
The current version of RTSP is based on the original proposal by Anup Rao and Rob Lanphier and the RTSP' proposal by Henning Schulzrinne.
Related papers can be found in the IRT research pages on Internet multimedia.
The following ports have been registered with IANA:
rtsp 554/tcp Real Time Stream Control Protocol rtsp 554/udp Real Time Stream Control Protocol rtsp-alt 8554/tcp RTSP Alternate (see port 554) rtsp-alt 8554/udp RTSP Alternate (see port 554)
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