[Live-devel] H264VideoStreamer packets sending problems with live streaming

[Philippe Noël]

Hi Ross,

I'm sorry, I should've better explained my problem and I really appreciate
the feedback. I was actually directly connecting my encoder to Live555
without a pipe and indeed I had the 'start codes' so I removed them, fixed
a few more problems and it pretty much works. I can now see the bytes
streamed in the terminal and things seem to be working fine (when I change
the desktop screen, I can see the number of bytes streamed jump, which is
the expected behavior).

That said, when I try to test my RTSP stream with VLC, nothing happens, any
idea what might be going wrong? It seems as though every piece is connected
and that the packets are indeed being sent.

Cheers,

Philippe Noël  <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/philippe-no%C3%ABl/124/284/148>
AB Candidate in *Computer Science - Mind, Brain, Behavior*, Secondary in
*Economics*
Harvard College Class of 2020
857.272.9715 | philippe_noel at college.harvard.edu | www.philippemnoel.com


On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 1:50 PM Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com> wrote:

> You haven’t explained exactly how you’re connecting your encoder to (your
> modified) “testH264VideoStreamer” code, but I’m guessing that you have a
> pipe (or whatever the equivalent is called in Windoze) that connects the
> two.  If so, the problem of “packets being sent, clumped together, every 5
> seconds” is almost certainly a problem with your pipe, not a problem with
> our code.  Maybe you can reconfigure your pipe in some way to avoid this “5
> second clumping” behavior?
>
> Alternatively, figure out a way to pass your encoder’s H.264 NAL units
> directly to the LIVE555 code, without using a pipe.  If (and only if) you
> do this, you would need to pass each NAL unit, one at a time, and *without*
> a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 ’start code’ to “H264VideoStreamDiscreteFramer”, not
> “H264VideoStreamFramer”.
>
>
> Ross Finlayson
> Live Networks, Inc.
> http://www.live555.com/
>
>
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