[Live-devel] How To Decode This Camera Stream

[tboonefisher at clear.net]

    FINALLY got it working!! Typical rookie mistakes including but not 
limited to trying to use a 32bit FFDShow filter in a 64bit app!! DUH!
When I substituted the FFDShow MP4 decoder for the  MS DTV-DVD Video 
Decoder, everything works well. Now just need to clean
up the code. Actually works better and is faster than VLC for the same rtsp 
URL.

Thanks again for a very nice library and your tolerance of a rookie...

Tom Fisher MD EE

-----Original Message----- 
From: tboonefisher at clear.net
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 9:58 AM
To: LIVE555 Streaming Media - development & use
Subject: Re: [Live-devel] How To Decode This Camera Stream

    As I previously posted, I am trying to write a Direct Show source filter
using code adapted from the example testRTSPClient to display the video
stream from the following Foscam camera. As you pointed out, Foscam is using
an outdated version of the Live555 server that is not sending appropriate
start codes. Despite this, when I  pass the NAL units directly from my
source filter to a connected Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder, I get "good"
video for the first few seconds and then the frames start getting "mixed up"
for lack of a better description. The video is displayed correctly albeit
with a great amount of latency when using VLC. I will be happy to post the
appropriate segments of my code here if anyone can help me with it. It will
be greatly appreciated.

    The following link is a live demo stream from the same model camera at
Foscam so anyone interested can take a look at what I'm dealing with:

rtsp://user:user@218.17.160.187:8082/videoMain

Tom Fisher