[Live-devel] H264 RTP Payload format

[Miklos Szeles]

Is it possible to receive somehow the RTP packets coming from the
camera without knowing it's payload type?

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunatelly the camera doesn't use RTSP. I can specify to use
> > multicast or unicast by CGI commands and I can start streaming with
> > CGI commands too. I would like to use unicast, so I don't know what to
> > do.
> >
>
>  Neither do I.  To play the stream (using VLC, or just about any other media
> player), you will need a SDP description.  This is especially true for
> H.264, because to initialize the client's decoder, you will need special
> parameters ("sprop-parameter-set") that are often provided only in the SDP
> description.
>
>  Why don't you consult the documentation for your camera?  If it really does
> stream H.264 video via RTP, then it should describe how to access/view the
> stream on 3rd-party clients (unless it is really using some proprietary,
> Sony-specific protocol, in which case we won't be able to help you).
>
>  --
>
>
>  Ross Finlayson
>  Live Networks, Inc.
>  http://www.live555.com/
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