[Live-devel] testH264Videostreamer to VLC crashes the VLC player

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live555.com
Fri Jan 14 09:18:16 PST 2011


>     I am using testH264Videostreamer to stream H.264. I use VLC to 
>capture and decode but it does not work, or it works only sometimes 
>while the most of times it crashes the player. Quicktime does not 
>show anything.

That's likely a problem with QuickTime Player.  It apparently can 
play only a limited subset of H.264.


>Some idea would be very appreciated. Maybe the problem is in the VLC player.

Yes, perhaps.  (Though not necessarily.)


>  Can someone suggest a way to test the validity of the stream?

Please put an example ".264" file online, and send us the URL, so I 
can download and test it.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/


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