[Live-devel] mediaServer MP4 support

Warren Young warren at etr-usa.com
Thu Sep 19 18:45:31 PDT 2013


On 9/19/2013 16:17, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> 1/ It'd be a lot of work.

We thought it would be easy.  Since it isn't, never mind.

> (Live Networks, Inc. is not a charity.)

You're always welcome to send us a work proposal.  We may or may not 
accept it, but we will consider it.

> 3/ We already support streaming from 'Matroska'-format files (a file
> format that is not patent encimbered).

Doesn't MKV have the same stream rate prediction problems as TS?

MP4 and Matroska will also be a step backwards in terms of trick play 
support, wouldn't they?

We're giving up on MP4 as a bad idea.


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