[Live-devel] live.com streaming libraries and mobile phones

[Andrei Hutanu]

Thanks for your message.
That sounds promising. I'll try to find such a telephone and I will
share my results with you.

Andrei

Ross Finlayson wrote:

>
>> My fault .. I want to create a live stream using the library that 
>> will be viewed from the phone over the Internet.
>
>
> As far as I know, '3GPP' uses the open standard RTSP/RTP/RTCP 
> protocols for streaming, and uses the MPEG-4 video and AAC audio RTP 
> payload formats, which the LIVE.COM code also supports.
>
> So, it should be possible to run the LIVE.COM server code - e.g., 
> "testOnDemandRTSPServer" - to serve MPEG-4 audio streams or AMR audio 
> streams, and receive/play these streams on a mobile phone.  This is 
> assuming, of course, that the phone doesn't use some sort of separate 
> authentication mechanism to ensure that only 'approved' streams can be 
> played.
>
> However, the LIVE.COM server code currently does not yet support 
> streaming from ".mp4" or ".3gp" format files.  (Once again, support 
> for these file formats could be added, if someone wishes to provide 
> funding for this.)
>
> But generally, I know of no reason why a stream served by a LIVE.COM 
> RTSP/RTP server could not be played on a '3GPP' mobile phone.  If 
> someone has such a phone, and is willing to try this out, please let 
> us know what you find.
>
>
>     Ross Finlayson
>     LIVE.COM
>     <http://www.live.com/>
>
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