[streaming] Re: video on demand

[Nico]

Dermot McGahon wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:51:19 +0200, Steven <stevenh at xsmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ross,
>>
>> Not sure yet if I can stop being flabbergasted :-) Some STBs don't  
>> support RTP. They only support native UDP.  That's why I asked for 
>> "open  source MPEG-2/UDP/IP with RTSP support VoD software". From 
>> what I see on  the live.com website, they use RTP, not native UDP.
>
>
> I have a patched but not-distributed version of mplayer which
> does exactly what you want.
>
> But, it fails to:
>
>   (a) keep a/v sync,
>   (b) display video without artifacts,
>   (c) keep playing audio (broken frame errors)
>   (d) not crash due to full buffers.
>
still problems with the TS demuxer or is demux_rtp's fault?

> So, I'm not sure that you would want it!
>
> It should be very possible to make vlc handle what you want
> to do, although the facility is not there at present.
>
> The raw udp multicast client aspects of vlc work really well
> and there is RTSP support for unicast. You will get what you
> want by just using the RTSPClient.cpp methods for the RTSP
> signaling and otherwise treating the stream as raw udp i.e
> just like multicast.
>
> It can be done, because I've done it (admittedly with mplayer).
>
> I just failed to subsequently make the received stream play in
> a stable fashion.
>
>
> Dermot.
> -- 
>

maybe it's time to investigate deeper :)



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