[Live-devel] Looking for known working m4v file

[Ross Finlayson]

>Is there an mpeg4 video file that is known to work with
>testMPEG4VideoStreamer and testOnDemandRTSPServer?

See <http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/faq.html#m4v-file>

>   I've tried just
>about every m4v file I can lay my hands on and even converted some
>basic mpeg1 into mpeg4 with mp4creator and ffmpeg and none of it will
>stream from liveMedia to vlc.

These are not MPEG-4 Video Elementary Stream files, so they won't work.

Unfortunately, Apple coopted (misused) the '.m4v' filename extension 
to mean "MPEG-4 video contained within a MPEG-4 format file", rather 
than "a MPEG-4 Video Elementary Stream file", which is how everyone 
else had been using the extension before.

Because of this confusion, I may end up changing the code to use the 
extension ".m4e" (instead of ".m4v") to mean "a MPEG-4 Video 
Elementary Stream file".
-- 

Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/
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