[Live-devel] Problem with Amino set-top box.

[Wei Weng]

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 14:28 -1000, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> >On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 13:42 -1000, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> >>  >What is the trick here? How do I get Amino box to work with Live?
> >>
> >>  Note that the Amino set-top box can play only MPEG Transport Stream
> >>  data - not MPEG Program Stream data (or anything else).  Therefore,
> >>  your original file must be a Transport Stream file.
> >>
> >>  If you have a MPEG Transport Stream file - whose picture is the
> >>  appropriate dimensions to be displayed by the Amino STB - then you
> >>  can stream it, using either "testOnDemandRTSPServer" (filename
> >>  "test.ts") or "live555MediaServer" (filename <anything>.ts)
> >
> >Ahhhhhh, Thanks a lot for the tip!
> >
> >I am thinking about using VLC to initially read from the mpeg file (the
> >file format would be .mpeg) and stream it out with TS format, my
> >question would be "Is there anyway to take the streaming output from VLC
> >server and pipe it through LiveMediaServer?"
> 
> No, not really,
> 
> However, I instead suggest that you use the 
> "testMPEG1or2ProgramToTransportStream" application (distributed in 
> the "testProgs" directory) to convert your Program Stream file to a 
> Transport Stream file.  You can then stream this (using our RTSP 
> server applications) to an Amino STB.

Thanks for the help so far.

I have been looking into the source for all those test applications
lately. Is there any way to transcode the program stream on the fly? For
the application I am going to use live555 in, I don't really have the
luxury of converting the program stream files first, then streaming them
out as transport stream files.

Any hints would be greatly appreciated. 

Thanks


Wei