[Live-devel] Develop H.264 Support

[Ross Finlayson]

>Another option would be using the rtp output format of the reference 
>h.264 encoder. In this format NAL units are written in a file as 
>single-NALU RTP packets. additionally there is 8 byte padding between 
>each packet, which also specifies how large each following packet is.

You're missing the point.  Anyone can conjure up their own file 
format for storing H.264 Elementary Stream data - in which case they 
can also write their own "H264VideoStreamFramer" class to parse this 
file format, and write their own "H264VideoFileServerMediaSubsession" 
class (for unicast, on-demand streaming), and write their own 
"testH264VideoStreamer" demo application (for multicast streaming). 
Feel free to do this.

But unless there's a single, well-defined file format for H.264 
Elementary Stream Video that everyone agrees upon (like there is for 
MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or (regular) MPEG-4 video), then I won't be writing 
these things myself.  End of story.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/