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

[Russell Brennan]

Well, I have been experimenting with piping and I can get file descriptors
for pipes using the pipe() call, but it seems that I need a FILE sctruct
rather than a file descriptor. Any ideas how to convert one to the other?

Russell


On 6/20/07, Russell Brennan <rjbrennn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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>
>
>
> --
> Russell Brennan
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(708) 699-7314
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