Validity of TS format transmitted by vls over network

[eric.verlind at philips.com]

Hi,

Vls 0.3.1 used to stream an MPEG1 PS over the network. Videolan server makes a TS out of it. The basic question is: how standard-compliant is this TS, thinking of having to render this via a hardware card in future.


Related to this: can anybody explain the following phenomenon:

I started with an MPEG1 PS, encoded at some 1.2 Mbit/s. I used vls to read it and stream it over the network.
Instead of using vlc, I using a small program that listened to UDP port 1234 and dumped all the data received from the network into a file dump.mpg.

On trying to play this *file* using vlc I see the usual phenomenon of vlc not being able to deal with a TS: a slider quickly moves from left to right without rendering any video or audio.

On trying to stream this file again using vls over the network there was more success: if was received and rendered OK by vlc.

Can anybody explain why it does not work with file playback and why it does work when vls is involved.


This relates presumably to the original question: how much of a TS is the stream coming out of vls? Can anybody play it using a hardware accelerator?

Kind regards,

Eric Verlind



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