Editing Real-Time Streaming Protocol (section)

=== Embedded (Interleaved) Binary Data ===
: Certain firewall designs and other circumstances may force a server to interleave RTSP methods and stream data. This interleaving should generally be avoided unless necessary since it complicates client and server operation and imposes additional overhead. Interleaved binary data SHOULD only be used if RTSP is carried over TCP. Stream data such as RTP packets is encapsulated by an ASCII dollar sign (24 hexadecimal), followed by a one-byte channel identifier, followed by the length of the encapsulated binary data as a binary, two-byte integer in network byte order. The stream data follows immediately afterwards, without a CRLF, but including the upper-layer protocol headers. Each $ block contains exactly one upper-layer protocol data unit, e.g., one RTP packet.
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C->S: SETUP rtsp://example.com/media.mp4 RTSP/1.0
      CSeq: 3
      Transport: RTP/AVP/TCP;interleaved=0-1

S->C: RTSP/1.0 200 OK
      CSeq: 3
      Date: 05 Jun 1997 18:57:18 GMT
      Transport: RTP/AVP/TCP;interleaved=0-1
      Session: 12345678

C->S: PLAY rtsp://example.com/media.mp4 RTSP/1.0
      CSeq: 4
      Session: 12345678

S->C: RTSP/1.0 200 OK
      CSeq: 4
      Session: 12345678
      Date: 05 Jun 1997 18:59:15 GMT
      RTP-Info: url=rtsp://example.com/media.mp4;seq=232433;rtptime=972948234

S->C: $\000{2 byte length}{"length" bytes data, w/RTP header}
S->C: $\000{2 byte length}{"length" bytes data, w/RTP header}
S->C: $\001{2 byte length}{"length" bytes  RTCP packet}
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