[Live-devel] Aspect Ratio in QuickTime Player on Windows

[Ross Finlayson]

>I have a problem with MPEG1 or MPEG2 video streaming. For streaming the 
>video I use testMPEG1or2AudioVideoStreamer under Linux. For watching the 
>video I want to use QuicktimePlayer under Windows XP. I have version 6.5.1 
>installed.
>
>Now I have the problem that the resolution isn't correct. My video is in 
>resolution 352x288 (MPEG1) and Quicktime shows 320x174. So the aspect 
>ratio seems to be not right. I don't know which aspect ratio is used, 
>perhaps it could be 16:9. But then the y-resoultion should be 180, isn't it?
>
>Does anybody know about this problem? How can I solve it?

I don't know, but it has nothing to do with the LIVE.COM code.  The media 
player should just be figuring out the aspect ratio from the MPEG header 
information (which is included in the RTP stream).

>Does anybody know about other mediaplayer on Windows which can play videos 
>streamed by liveMedia?

VLC <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/>.


	Ross Finlayson
	LIVE.COM
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