[Live-devel] Issue converting H.264 with EOS NALU to MPEG-TS

[Mcnamara, JohnX]

Hi Ross,
Following on from an earlier post in relation to H264VideoStreamParser:
    http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2012-June/015350.html
The fix provided worked for all the cases that I tested at the time but I recently encountered some other files where the H.264 stream was truncated in the MPEG-TS container when using H264VideoStreamFramer and MPEG2TransportStreamFromESSource.
The files in question had an end_of_stream NAL Unit of 0x0000010b. This is a valid nal_unit_type according to Section 7.4.1, "NAL unit semantics", of the H.264 specification.
You can reproduce the issue as follows with your sample tc10.264 file:

    cd testProgs
    cp ~/Videos/tc10.264 in.264

    # Convert in.264 to out.ts:
    ./testH264VideoToTransportStream
    # Demux it back to H.264:
    ffmpeg -i out.ts -vcodec copy demuxed01.h264
    # Verify that the files are the same:
    cmp in.264 demuxed01.h264
    # Add the end of stream NALU to in the input file:
    perl -i -0777 -ne 'print $_, pack "N", 0x0000010b if eof' in.264

    # Convert in.264 to out.ts again:
    ./testH264VideoToTransportStream
    # Demux it back to H.264 again:
    ffmpeg -i out.ts -vcodec copy demuxed02.h264
    # Verify that the files are no longer the same:
    cmp in.264 demuxed02.h264

You will see that the demuxed02.h264 file is truncated in relation to the input file:
    $ ls -l in.264 demuxed0?.h264
    -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 2680810 2012-07-18 13:59 in.264
    -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 2680806 2012-07-18 13:59 demuxed01.h264
    -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 2674518 2012-07-18 13:59 demuxed02.h264


I tested with version  live.2012.07.14.

Regards,
John.
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