[Live-devel] mpeg-4 multicast?

Scott Hays sdhays at neon.com.tw
Tue Jan 3 18:40:34 PST 2006


Actually, VLC should be able to play MPEG4-ES files (although not  
always very well, in my experience).  See:
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=12810

Scott


On Jan 3, 2006, at 5:56 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:

> At 12:25 PM 1/2/2006, you wrote:
>> Hi, Ross,
>>
>> I run the testMPEG4VideoStream.exe, there is some
>> problems I cannot understand.
>>
>> I got the test.m4v video file as you told throught
>> openRTSP, but I cannot play
>> this file directly by VLC, QT, or realPlayer.
>
> That's because those media players don't play MPEG-4 Elementary  
> Stream Video files.
>
> Although you can't play these files directly with a media player,  
> you can play it (in VLC or QuickTime Player) by streaming it (using  
> "testMPEG4VideoStreamer" or "testOnDemandRTSPServer") and viewing  
> the stream (using the "rtsp://" URL).
>
>
>>  I don't
>> understand much MPEG-4 specification, can you give me
>> some idea by which specification does this file
>> is made
>
> Yes, the MPEG-4 Video standard is defined in the "ISO_IEC 14496-2"  
> specification.
>
>
> 	Ross Finlayson
> 	Live Networks, Inc. (LIVE555.COM)
> 	<http://www.live555.com/>
>
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