[Live-devel] RTSP Client - Problem with MP3 Streaming

[Ross Finlayson]

At 10:08 PM 12/13/04, you wrote:
>For standard encoding rates(128KBps 44.1KHz), the library returns me a
>value of 1254 bytes for each read but occassionally 1253 bytes. What is
>the reason for this?

This is because the MP3 frames themselves sometimes vary in size by 1 byte, 
as indicated by the 'padding' bit in the MP3 'syncword'.

>  Should I discard this 1253 bytes packet

No, definitely not.  It's perfectly valid.

>The problem is I am having some glitches in between during playback.

I suggest starting by running "openRTSP" as the client.  The output file 
should be a valid, playable MP3 file.

>Is RTSP library capable of receiving Streamed data that are
>encoded at higher bit rate?

Yes, of course.


	Ross Finlayson
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