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special value 0 (default) uses the FFmpeg/Libav defaults. If a protocol
is used which does not support timeouts, this option is silently ignored.
+ .. warning::
+
+ This breaks the RTSP protocol, because of inconsistent FFmpeg API
+ regarding its internal timeout option. Not only does the RTSP timeout
+ option accept different units (seconds instead of microseconds, causing
+ mpv to pass it huge values), it will also overflow FFmpeg internal
+ calculations. The worst is that merely setting the option will put RTSP
+ into listening mode, which breaks any client uses. Do not use this
+ option with RTSP URLs.
+
``--rtsp-transport=<lavf|udp|tcp|http>``
Select RTSP transport method (default: tcp). This selects the underlying
network transport when playing ``rtsp://...`` URLs. The value ``lavf``