[Live-devel] MPEG 2 and 4

[Hyperbit]

Thankyou Ross,

That would explain why one machine can play MPEG2 and not any others.
I will work on FFMPEG to create an MPEG4 elementary stream from a
hardware MPEG2 encoder.

Thanks for your help, and the great effort you put into it

John

On 10/18/05, Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com> wrote:
>
> >I have a major problem streaming MPEG2 , either from a file source or
> >via FFMPEG. It is strange why the stream goes out ok, but quicktime
> >can not view the video, even if it is from an MPEG2 file.
>
> Note that QuickTime Player cannot play MPEG-2 (unless you buy a
> separate MPEG-2 decoder plugin).
>
> Instead of QuickTime Player, use VLC - it's better.
>
> >The biggest concern I have is, that I have not managed to stream
> >MPEG4. Quicktime or VLC just does not want to display the video at
> >all.
>
> See <http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/faq.html>.  Note that to stream
> MPEG-4 video, the input file must be a MPEG-4 **Elementary Stream**
> file - *not* a "MPEG-4 format" or ".mp4" file.