[Live-devel] H.264 and QuickTime client

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live555.com
Fri Jul 25 04:31:24 PDT 2008


>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.

The problem is probably that QuickTime does not implement the same 
H.264 'profile' that your server's encoder generates.

However, you should check on a QuickTime mailing list to confirm this.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/


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