[Live-devel] Writing RTSP server

[Ross Finlayson]

> I encoded the data using FFMPEG, and then sent using Live555.The codec used is H.264, and the hence the sink class.
>  
> The problem is that VLC plays the stream , but the video is not visible i.e it is coming as black.
> Now the question is that , how does the VLC come to know about the size and format of the video being played, as it is not a video file with header information.Only the frames and encoded and sent.
>  
> I am unable to understand the reason behind the blank output on VLC.

First, note that VLC is not our software, so you should do your testing first using "openRTSP" as your RTSP client.  Then, rename the resulting output file to have a ".h264" filename suffix, and then try playing the file (not the stream) using VLC.

Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/

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