[Live-devel] H263-1996 rtp question

[Ross Finlayson]

>I am working on setting up a streaming environment where a number of
>different RTP payload types are involved, and currently I am looking
>into reading a H263 stream (the original "H263-1996" type, not H263+).

That's fine.  The newer RTP payload format can (and should) be used 
to stream either H263+ *or* the original H.263.  Therefore, to stream 
H.263, you do not need to implement anything new.  Just use our 
existing "H263plusVideoFileServerMediaSubsession" and 
"H263plusRTPSink" classes (for sending) and "H263plusVideoRTPSource" 
(for receiving).


>So I have been looking and comparing the H263 and H263+ RTP spec's to
>see how much work there would be to possibly implement it

The old H.263 RTP payload format specification (RFC 2190) is now 
*obsolete*, and should not be used.  As noted above, use our existing 
H.263+ RTP payload format (RFC 2429) implementation instead.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/