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I have a Power Mac G5 and make a H264 video recording to a file the
H264 streaming with Quicktime Broadcaster.<br>
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After, I play this .mov file in VLC (0.8.2 binary for windows, without
any specific compilation) and the Stream and Media Info says:<br>
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Stream 0<br>
- Codec: avc1<br>
- Resolution: 720x480<br>
- Frame rate: 31.217482<br>
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Stream 1<br>
- Codec: mp4a<br>
- Type: Audio<br>
- Channels: 2<br>
- Sample rate: 32000Hz<br>
- Bits per sample: 16<br>
- Bitrate: 1024 kb/s<br>
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If I play this file in Quicktime Player 6, the player can't play this
file.<br>
If I play this file in Quicktime Player 7 for Mac OS, the movie play
ok, and the player identify the video format as H.264 and audio format
as AAC.<br>
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But play a H264 file its not the same case that play a H264 streaming
in VLC.<br>
To play a H264 streaming, I needed to compile the VLC source with
newest Live.com source and newest ffmpeg source, and at now its not
working so good. There are some problems yet.<br>
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Luis F. Heckler<br>
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Chhaya, Harshal wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Måns,
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<pre wrap="">Play the file in a player that does display the information you want,
and play the same file in VLC.
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I did this with a few files and here is the result:
- file1: According to the Stream and Media Information of vlc,
video contents (stream 0) is mp4v
Moonlight Player says DIV4 (30fps, 160x128).
- file2: According to the Stream and Media Information of vlc,
video contents (stream 0) is mpgv
Moonlight Player says MPEG2-MP/ML (204.8kbps, 29.97fps, 352x288, 4:3)
- file3: vlc cannot play this file (there might be some problems with
the file itself. I had posted a couple of questions about this last
week with the subject 'Problem playing .trp file')
Moonlight Player says H.264 (14.99fps, 320x180)
As you can see, the two players show different information.
This led to the conclusion that vlc can't play h.264 files which
I think is wrong.
If you (or anyone on this list), has an h.264 file that plays in
vlc, please tell me what is the video type reported by vlc. It
would also help if you could send me that file.
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<pre wrap="">And the reason that vlc's H.264 support is marked
'experimental' on the webpage is because ffmpeg does not
yet implement the entire H.264 spec, right?
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<pre wrap="">Sorry, don't know the answer to that one.
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I don't remember where I read this (either on this mailing list
or somewhere on the vlc website) but it makes sense to me.
Thanks,
- Harshal
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