[Live-devel] iPhone CAN"T play the TS files generated by testH264VideoToTransportStream

[Dunling Li]

Hi Ross,

Thanks for your useful guide. Here is my situation:

We use HTTP live streaming to send TS files to iphone. Our sever is
lighttpd. We split our a video clip into multiple 4 seconds h264 files,
then convert them to TS files in the server for streaming. We have
simple h264 to TS convertor (not sufficient) which allow us to see video
clips on iphone. The iphone uses mobile quick time video player. I sent
you one of our h264 video clip before, we stream 5 or 6 similar files
once. Our goal is to use live555 library to replace our current
h264-to-TS convertor. We converted those h264 files to TS files using
testH264VideoToTransportStream, the TS files are good for VLC and media
player. However, we manually put the converted TS files to our lighttpd
server for streaming, iphone can not display any TS video clips from
testH264VideoToTransportStream. Can you advice me how to fix it? 

Many thanks
Dunling

P.S. Probably HTTP live streaming validator adds too much distraction
here.  
The HTTP live streaming validator is a development tool on MAC, the link
below shows some details:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#technotes/tn2010/tn2235.html. I
am new in MAC development. I haven't found any explanation about the
posted errors form validator in http://developer.apple.com/devforums/. 

-----Original Message-----
From: live-devel-bounces at ns.live555.com
[mailto:live-devel-bounces at ns.live555.com] On Behalf Of Ross Finlayson
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 8:29 PM
To: LIVE555 Streaming Media - development & use
Subject: Re: [Live-devel] iPhone CAN"T play the TS files generated by
testH264VideoToTransportStream

>I use testH264VideoToTransportStream to generate some TS files. None 
>of them can be played in iPhone. The live streaming validator shows 
>the following error:
>
>ERROR: Invalid media segment: The validator helper exited due to a 
>fatal error: segment duration is not finite.
>
>Can anyone point me how to fix this problem?

That seems unlikely, considering that:
1/ You didn't provide (or post a link to) a single ".264" file that 
illustrates your problem.
2/ You didn't say what software (on the iPhone) you are using to try 
to play the resulting TS file.
3/ Perhaps you meant to say that you are trying to *stream* the TS 
file to the iPhone (rather than trying to play the file on the 
iPhone)?  If that's the case, you didn't say what software you are 
using as a server (to stream your file).
4/ You didn't say what "the live streaming validator" is.
5/ You didn't say what "the live streaming validator"s documentation 
(or online support forums or mailing lists) had to say about the 
meaning of the error message that you saw.
-- 

Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/
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