[Live-devel] playing mpeg-4 video-MP4-ES-1 file

[Clark N. Taylor]

I second the webpage motion.

In my own opinion, the biggest weakness in the live.com stuff is the 
documentation.  Any more webpages you could create would be very 
helpful.  I spent probably two days climbing through the code before I 
finally realized some of the very basic aspects of the code, like a 
source and sink are created for both the client and server, etc.  If it 
would be helpful, I could even write up a basic webpage that might help 
newcomers to the code.

Michael Hess wrote:

>Hello there,
>
>you can also use any video, and encode it with
>
>ffmpeg -i inputvideo -sameq -an test.m4v
>
>This would generate you an MPEG4ES (Elementary Stream) which you can use
>with the Servers. Please be aware, an mp4-file (with audio) will NOT work!
>
>Best regards,
>
>Michael Hess
>
>PS: Ross: Can you create a webpage which explains, who to create an
>mpeg4ES file ? This would be useful for many people, since I had the same
>problem in the beginning :)
>
>
>
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>
>>At 06:29 AM 2/11/04, you wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Following your suggestions, I have been able to stream mpeg-4 video and
>>> have got the resultant
>>>video-MP4-ES-1 file. I don't have any media player installed in LINUX
>>>and  therefore I am using QuickTime and Real Player in Windows to play
>>>this  file. I have renamed this file to temp.mp4 but the file is not
>>>being  opened by these players.   The error message states that the
>>>file is not a  valid mpeg-4 file.
>>>
>>>Please let me know the solution to this problem.
>>>      
>>>
>>As Bryn Reeves notes, you probably won't be able to play this file
>>directly  within most media players.  However, that wasn't your original
>>
>>question.  You original question was: How to get a MPEG-4 video file
>>that  you can *stream*, using the "testMPEG4VideoStreamer" or
>>"testOnDemandRTSPServer" test programs.
>>
>>If you rename your file "test.m4v", you will be able to stream it using
>>either of these test programs - and then you will be able to play the
>>resulting stream using "vlc" player, or "QuickTime Player" (by opening
>>the  appropriate "rtsp://" URL).
>>
>>
>>	Ross Finlayson
>>	LIVE.COM
>>	<http://www.live.com/>
>>
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Clark N. Taylor
PhD Student and Research Assistant
University of California, San Diego
cntaylor at ece.ucsd.edu
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