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

[Måns Rullgård]

"Chhaya, Harshal" <hchhaya at ti.com> writes:

> 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).

That's MPEG4, of sorts.

> - 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)

That's MPEG2.

> - 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)

I suppose that is H.264, if Moonlight says so.

> As you can see, the two players show different information.

Same thing, different names.

> 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.

At least some of the files in http://mru.ath.cx/samples/h264/ should
work.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru at inprovide.com

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