JRTPLIB

Developed at the Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM), a research institute of the Hasselt University

Library location and contact

Normally, you should be able to download the latest version of the library from this url: http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/jori/jrtplib

Documentation can be found at jrtplib.readthedocs.io

If you have questions about the library, you can mail me at: jori.liesenborgs@gmail.com

Acknowledgment

I would like thank the people at the Expertise Centre for Digital Media for giving me the opportunity to create this rewrite of the library. Special thanks go to Wim Lamotte for getting me started on the RTP journey many years ago.

Disclaimer & Copyright

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Installation notes

• Use the CMake build system to compile the library. In case extra include directories or libraries are needed, you can use the ADDITIONAL_ CMake variables to specify these. They will be stored in both the resulting JRTPLIB CMake configuration file and the pkg-config file.

• The library documentation can be generated using Doxygen. An on-line version can be found at http://jrtplib.readthedocs.io

• For systems with low memory or for applications which will involve only a few participants at a time:
  You can set the HASHSIZE defines in rtpsources.h, rtpudpv4transmitter.h and rtpudpv6transmitter.h to a lower value to avoid memory being wasted. Note that the library will have to be recompiled.

• Used defines:

  • WIN32: For compilation on an Win32 platform.

  • _WIN32_WCE: Define needed for compilation on a WinCE platform

  • RTP_HAVE_SYS_FILIO: Set if <sys/filio.h> exists.

  • RTP_HAVE_SYS_SOCKIO: Set if <sys/sockio.h> exists.

  • RTP_BIG_ENDIAN: If set, assume big-endian byte ordering.

  • RTP_SOCKLENTYPE_UINT: Indicates that getsockname used an unsigned int as its third parameter.

  • RTP_HAVE_SOCKADDR_LEN: Indicates that struct sockaddr has an sa_len field.

  • RTP_SUPPORT_IPV4MULTICAST: Enables support for IPv4 multicasting.

  • RTP_SUPPORT_THREAD: Enables support for JThread.

  • RTP_SUPPORT_SDESPRIV: Enables support for RTCP SDES private items.

  • RTP_SUPPORT_PROBATION: If set, a few consecutive RTP packets are needed to validate a member.

  • RTP_SUPPORT_GETLOGINR: If set, the library will use getlogin_r instead of getlogin.

  • RTP_SUPPORT_IPV6: If set, IPv6 support is enabled.

  • RTP_SUPPORT_IPV6MULTICAST: If set, IPv6 multicasting support is enabled.

  • RTP_SUPPORT_SENDAPP: If set, sending of RTCP app packets is enabled.

  • RTP_SUPPORT_MEMORYMANAGEMENT: If set, the memory management system is enabled.

  • RTP_SUPPORT_RTCPUNKNOWN: If set, sending of unknown RTCP packets is enabled.

  • RTPDEBUG: Enables some memory tracking functions and some debug routines.

Cross-compilation of JThread & JRTPLIB for Android

Warning: When cross-compiling, the configuration defaults to big-endian. But since most Android systems are little-endian, you should probably change this setting in the CMake configuration.

The approach I follow for cross-compiling these libraries for the Android platform is sketched below. The following lines are stored in a file called toolchain.cmake (for example):

set(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME Android)
set(CMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION 21) # API level
set(CMAKE_ANDROID_ARCH_ABI armeabi-v7a)
set(CMAKE_ANDROID_NDK /path/to/ndk-bundle/)
set(CMAKE_ANDROID_STL_TYPE gnustl_static)

set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PROGRAM NEVER)
set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY ONLY)
set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE ONLY)
set(CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PACKAGE ONLY)

When starting CMake, first for JThread and afterwards for JRTPLIB, I then manually add the following entries:

CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE /path/to/toolchain.cmake
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX /path/to/installation/directory
CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH /path/to/installation/directory

For example, I like to use the ccmake program, which would yield the following command line:

ccmake -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/path/to/toolchain.cmake \
       -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/installation/directory \
       -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH=/path/to/installation/directory \
       /path/to/main/CMakeLists.txt

After configuring JThread this way, just build and install it. The same CMake procedure for JRTPLIB should then automatically detect the correct JThread (so the one that's installed in your cross-compilation installation directory), after which you can again build and install the RTP library.