What is the difference between RTP or RTSP in a streaming server?
I'm thinking about developing a streaming server and I have the following question, do over RTSP (example url: rtsp://192.168.0.184/myvideo.mpg) or RTP (example url: rtp://192.168.0.184).
As I have understood, an RTSP server is mainly used for streaming of files that already exist, ie, not live. RTP server is used to broadcast.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, am I right?.
What I want to develop a server to broadcast live content on the computer screen, that is, which is displayed at the time that is broadcast in streaming.
Answer
You are getting something wrong... RTSP is a realtime streaming protocol. Meaning, you can stream whatever you want in real time. So you can use it to stream LIVE content (no matter what it is, video, audio, text, presentation...). RTP is a transport protocol which is used to transport media data which is negotiated over RTSP.
You use RTSP to control media transmission over RTP. You use it to setup, play, pause, teardown the stream...
So, if you want your server to just start streaming when the URL is requested, you can implement some sort of RTP-only server. But if you want more control and if you are streaming live video, you must use RTSP, because it transmits SDP and other important decoding data.
Read the documents I linked here, they are a good starting point.