[vlc] Re: How is H.264 indicated?

[Chhaya, Harshal]

Måns,

> Play the file in a player that does display the information you want,
> and play the same file in VLC.

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.


> > 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?
> 
> Sorry, don't know the answer to that one.

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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