[streaming] Re: Decoding MPEG4 video via UDP

Derk-Jan Hartman hartman at videolan.org
Wed Oct 19 20:34:09 CEST 2005


On 19 okt 2005, at 19:54, Christian Gan wrote:
> Hello folks,
> Currently I’m using live555.com libraries to create an MPEG4 video  
> stream via UDP.  When I try to use VLC to accept this stream using  
> udp://, it defaults to using the libmpeg2 codec and fails to decode  
> the stream.  I attempted to force VLC to use ffmpeg using the – 
> codec ffmpeg option and it seems to accept the command but it still  
> uses the MPEG-2 decoder of ffmpeg.  Is there a way to tell VLC to  
> open the ffmpeg decoder using MPEG4?

UDP? are you sure you don't mean rtp???
Anyways. If you wanna stream anything other then MPEG-TS, you should  
create an RTSP Server session, and feed VLC a SDP file or a rtsp://  
link.

DJ
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