[Live-devel] Buffered MPEG2-TS to RTP how-to

[Russell Brennan]

Yes, I'm on RedHat 5... Piping it sounds liek a great idea to me, I'm going
to try to put something together and I'll post some code snippets for future
reference when I get things running smoothly.  Thanks,

Russell


On 6/19/07, Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com> wrote:
>
> >I am trying to take a buffer of MPEG2-TS data which is constantly
> >written to, and hook it up to live555 for output via RTP.
>
> The best way to do this is to make your buffer an OS pipe, and then
> just have your LIVE555-based application read from this.  For
> example, if you write your MPEG-2 TS data to standard output (in one
> process), and then pipe this to your LIVE-555-based application (in
> another process), that reads from "stdin" (see below).
>
> If you do this, then you won't have to modify any existing code
> (except the name of the input file in "testMPEG2TransportStreamer").
>
> >  I am currently basing my work on the testMEPG2TransportStreamer
> >code, but obviously this was designed to stream a file.
>
> Yes - however, the special file name "stdin" can be used to read from
> standard input.
>
> (I'm assuming that you're running a Unix system (including Linux).
> If instead you're running Windows, then I don't know what you'd do
> (although I think Windows has 'named pipes').)
> --
>
> Ross Finlayson
> Live Networks, Inc.
> http://www.live555.com/
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