[Live-devel] Live555 with ffmpeg's MJPEG codec

[Silvain Beriault]

>> If I don't use live555 it works just fine: i.e. encode to a memory 
>> block, decode from a memory block.  I tried comparing the original 
>> jpeg compressed data with the received data and it seems that the 
>> jpeg header is broken. Could it be that JPEGVideoRTPSink fails to 
>> reconstruct the original JPEG header for some reason?
>
> "JPEGVideoRTPSink" (which is used by the RTP sender) doesn't 
> reconstruct the JPEG header.  (Remember that the JPEG header is not 
> sent in the RTP packet.)  It's the RTP *receiver* 
> ("JPEGVideoRTPSource" in our case) that reconstructs a JPEG header 
> (from the parameters in the RTP payload format header).


JPEGVideoRTPSource is what I meant... Anyhow, I'll continue investigate 
the problem and if i find the solution, I'll post it to the mailing list.