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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Requesting command to decode UDP packet to RTP

From: Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 22:04:42 +0200
On 06-04-17 22:01, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2017, at 12:49 PM, Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Have a look in your configuration file heuristic_protos. There's this entry:
>> rtp_udp,1
>> If it says '0' instead change it to '1'.
>> You can do this via the GUI, go to menu Analyze|Enabled Protocols...
>> Then search for RTP, and enable rtp_udp. Then leave the GUI and try tshark again
>> from the command line. It uses the same configuration files, so it should be
>> fine now.
> 
> Or try running tshark with the command-line option
> 
> 	--enable-heuristic rtp_udp
> 
> which will enable it for that *particular* instance of tshark without making it a permanent setting.

... but isn't it always the same story; "how to get UDP dissected as RTP"? I
can't remember the question being asked the other way around....