[Live-devel] passing data to ffmpeg?

[Zoltan NAGY]

Luca Abeni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 11:31 +0100, Zoltan NAGY wrote:
>   
>> I'm wondering if it's possible for an application to "feed" ffmpeg
>> from data read by live555's rtsp client code?
>>
>> for example, to extend the openRTSP client to play the received
>> video file with ffmpeg without having a intermediate file?
>>     
> I think the simplest thing to do is to write something like a
> "TSFileSink" and to feed its output in ffmpeg through a pipe (maybe a
> fifo), assuming the data you receive can be muxed in a transport stream
> (this includes all the MPEG* audio and video, plus H.264).
>
>   
what about H.263?

Thanks in advance,

Zoltan NAGY,
Software Engineer