<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div fpstyle="1" ocsi="0" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">I encoded the data using FFMPEG, and then sent using Live555.The codec used is H.264, and the hence the sink class.</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"> </div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">The problem is that VLC plays the stream , but the video is not visible i.e it is coming as black.</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">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.</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"> </div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">I am unable to understand the reason behind the blank output on VLC.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>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.<br><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Ross Finlayson<br>Live Networks, Inc.<br><a href="http://www.live555.com/">http://www.live555.com/</a></span></span>
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