[Live-devel] Streaming H264 elementary stream vs file

[Ross Finlayson]

> On Sep 8, 2020, at 12:52 AM, Simon Brown <sbrown at microvideo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> If I take our transport stream and convert it to raw H264 using FFmpeg with this command line:
> 
>  ffmpeg -i udp://:61110 -c:v copy -an -f h264 test.264
> 
> and then ask testOnDemandRTSPServer to play it by asking for rtsp://192.168.1.13/h264ESVideoTest
> 
> it plays fine.
> 
> However, if I change the ffmpeg command to pipe out the raw 264 data, and then the RTSP server to accept stdin as the file for h264ESVideoTest I get a single frame displayed and nothing more. Is there any reason for this?

Well, I’m sure there’s a reason for it; I just don’t know what that reason is :-)

I assume that you’ve already successfully tested:
	your-modified-testOnDemandRTSPServer < test.264


Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
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