Support for Haivision Open SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) protocol

[moster67]

This is really not an issue but more of a question or request for implementation.

The title says it all, I guess i.e. Support for Haivision Open SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) protocol.
This protocol is being more and more used. It is open source and you can read about it here:
https://github.com/Haivision/srt

It is included in the official distribution of FFmpeg since version 4.0 (I think).
https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/libavformat/libsrt.c

For instance, I could use the following command:
ffmpeg -re -i big_buck_bunny_1080p_stereo.avi -c copy -f mpegts srt://127.0.0.1:4242
(of course adapted for Android command line)
which I then would listen for on a server or using VLC.

Maybe it is enough to enable --enable-libsrt in the configuration line?

I will try myself in the following days hoping there is no need to write any JNI/wrapping code which I unfortunately do not master.

[tanersener]

Thanks for creating this issue.

I remember I had tried to add support for this library but it failed somewhere; so it wasn't added in the end. If you can make it work, I'll be happy to accept your PR.

[moster67]

Thanks. I don't have much experience with building libs and setting up configurations etc, especially merging other libs. However, I will try....

[tanersener]

Unfortunately it is not possible to support srt library right now.

srt depends on openssl and I don't want to support openssl because its license is a little bit complicated and incompatible with GPL/LGPL.

openssl plans to use apache 2.0 license in new releases. When this transition completes, we can reconsider supporting srt.