[Live-devel] Layered video with Live555

[Ross Finlayson]

>Well, actually, I think we will have multiple incoming streams to deal
>with.  What we intend to demonstrate is basically separating the layers
>into multiple RTP streams on the server side, then letting the client
>choose which streams to subscribe to and recombine them to produce the
>desired video quality.  We plan on feeding the recombined stream into
>the reference SVC decoder to let it handle decoding the actual video. 
>We originally considered VLC, but eventually decided not to use it,
>figuring it'd be too difficult to shoehorn the reference codec into it.
>
>Does it still sound like a mux approach is not the way to go?

Yes, what you're describing is 'multiplexing'.  (I had forgotten that 
you were planning to have multiple incoming layers.  If you have just 
one layer of RTP video (the normal case), then there's no 
multiplexing - just time-based playout (based on presentation time).)
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/