[Live-devel] Quicktime player 7.6.9 can't play x.264 bit stream file

[Cheng James]

>I use the prebuilt live555 server binary and a .264 sample file
>which is downloaded from live555 web site for testing h.264
>streaming.
>I found that quicktime player version 7.6.9 can't play the stream.
>After quicktime sucessfully connects to the live 555 server, the
>quicktime
>only displays a scrolling bar and shows nothing. Is it a problem for
>quicktime or live555?

>Quicktime.  QuickTime Player apparently does not support the
>'profile' of H.264 video that was used to encode the ".264" file that
>you used.

>If, however, you use the VLC client - http://www.videolan.org/vlc -
>you'll find that it can play the stream OK.

Thanks for the information. Accroding to my understanding, there are only 3
profiles of H.264 (high, main and baseline)but none of them could be played
by quicktime.

I have also posted this question to the quicktime forum but no answer
returned.
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