[Live-devel] Starting up

Ben Rush ben at ben-rush.net
Mon Feb 8 15:11:54 PST 2016


I honestly think you're trying to put a square peg in a round hole here. If
you're planning to use Live555, unless someone has any evidence to the
contrary, I believe you should do everything in C++ and forgo trying to do
anything in Python.

On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 10:29 PM IR at InterStrat.com <IR at interstrat.com> wrote:

> Ben. Thanks for your clarifications and guidance.
> More startup questions.
> For a video-streaming server side application, how would one make the call
> between C++ libraries and  a Python environment ?
> Would the C++ libraries be called by Python ? C++ would be much faster of
> course.
> What would be best done in C++ and what in Python ?
> Thanks in advance
> IR
>
>
>
> On Feb 7, 2016, at 12:43 AM, IR at InterStrat.com wrote:
>
> Thanks very much Ben
> IR
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Feb 7, 2016, at 00:14, Ben Rush <ben at ben-rush.net> wrote:
>
> I do not think you'll find much in the way of python support for Live555,
> if that's what you're asking. Otherwise you can look at other open source
> projects such as https://github.com/mhaller/pyffmpeg.
>
> Browsing the newsgroup has been the best documentation I've found, next to
> reading the source code itself (download the live555 source and look in the
> testProgs folder for sample applications).
>
> I wouldn't say extensive knowledge of C++ is important. If you understand
> class inheritance and are fluent enough in C++ to read the code, you should
> be fine. The server is built in such a way that you fill in the functions
> you need and that's about all.
>
> Otherwise read through the basics on the codes you plan on using
> (Wikipedia is your best bet).
>
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 10:09 PM IR at InterStrat.com <IR at interstrat.com> <
> IR at interstrat.com> wrote:
>
>> Guidance please on required background for using Live555.
>>
>> What are good Python sources for streaming media applications?
>> What level of C++ ?
>> Any other resources that are recommended to get going?
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> IR
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