[Live-devel] H.264 and QuickTime client

[Etienne Bömcke]

Hi,

When you stream video sequence to Quicktime, you have to make sure  
that they're properly hinted. The hint track is an additional  
information track in the file telling Quicktime how to decode it. You  
can add a hinting track to an H.264 encoded sequence with mp4box,  
which is part of the GPAC project (http://gpac.sourceforge.net/).
I did some work with Live555, x264 and the Quicktime client, if you  
need additional info I'll be happy to help.

Cheers,

Etienne


On 21 Dec 2008, at 08:16, Thomas Christensen wrote:

> Hi Maxim
>
> Did you find a solution to the problem you described below?
>
> And is it possible for you to share the implementation you have done?
>
> Cheers
>
> Thomas
>
> Den 25/07/2008 kl. 16.16 skrev Maxim Petrov:
>
>> Hi Gents.
>>
>> The topic of this message is little bit off-topic, but because it's
>> related to live555 software too I think I can describe my problem  
>> here.
>>
>> We have implemented rtsp server using live555 framework. Also we are
>> using libx264 as encoder. Open source clients like VLC and mplayer  
>> can
>> get and play H.264 stream w/o any problem. So I think our  
>> implementation
>> of H264VideoStreamFramer is correct.
>>
>> However QuickTime(7.4.5) is seems different story. RTSP negotiation
>> passed great, after PLAY command our server are sending stream to
>> QuickTime, and I even see control bar with progress of streaming.  
>> But no
>> video displayed. Even if I click on "pause" button, PAUSE command is
>> sending to our server... As I understand there is no problem with
>> network level, but for some reason QuickTime cannot decode stream.
>>
>> Of course I do not ask how to solve my problem. I just wondering if
>> somehow had experience with QuickTime client and have problems like  
>> we?
>>
>> I've just subscribed to quicktime-users mail list and will send  
>> questions there too...
>>
>> Another question: anybody know about another (may be proprietary)
>> clients (except vlc, mplayer, quicktime) which can play H.264 over
>> RTSP/RTP.
>>
>> -- 
>> Bye, Maxim.
>>
>> We can solve any problem by introducing an extra level of  
>> indirection.
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Etienne Bömcke
Laboratoire de Télécommunications et Télédétections
Université Catholique de Louvain
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