[Live-devel] mplayer transcoding

[Susanne Lefvert]

Yes, that's exactly what I want to do. 

Thanks, 

Susanne

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Ross Finlayson wrote:

> 
> >I saw on the web page for mplayer that live.com now enables you to receive
> >and play standards-compliant RTP audio/video streams. Do you know if
> >mplayer/mencoder also allows you to transcode audio RTP streams?
> 
> Susanne,
> 
> If by "transcode RTP streams" you mean:
>          1/ receive a RTP stream (that uses one particular codec (and 
> payload format)) from somewhere
>          2/ transcode the audio payload into another codec
>          3/ resend the RTP stream somewhere else, using the second codec 
> (and payload format)
> then, no, MPlayer can't do this.
> 
> However, you could, in principle, write your own application using the 
> "LIVE.COM Streaming Media" libraries that does this.  You will need to 
> write your own code that does 2/ (the actual transcoding), but there is 
> lots of support in the libraries for 1/ and 3/.
> 
> 
> 	Ross Finlayson
> 	LIVE.COM
> 	<http://www.live.com/>
> 
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