[vlc] Re: Mainconcept encode play error

[Vaclav Koldus]

Hi Pete!

The problem with main concept H.264 encoded videos is indeed that these 
are mpeg files. Vlc can't recognize if
the .mpeg file contains mpeg2 or h.264 stream. It just assumes it is a 
mpeg2 stream. Only solution I came
with is to give up playing mpeg2 and consider all mpegs to be h264s. I 
don't know whether this stream can be
decoded with ffmpeg. I'm trying to implement H.264 SDK from MainConcept 
to do this, but I'm not done and
there are some strange (for me) licensing policies about this SDK. At 
this rate, I'm even not shure whether I
(as MC customer) will be able to use it. When I'm done, I could publish 
the implementation, but I can't give you
the SDK. You'd have to purchase this from MC.

I'll publish it here, when I accomplish this.


Vaclav.

> Hi,
>
> I have just uploaded to ftp://streams.videolan.org 
> /incoming/Maincocept encode/ a small sample of a file encoded in 
> mainconcept H.264 Encoder v2.15 latest build that will only play the 
> audio not the video... I have only got it working using MPC and 
> elecard decoders. The file is .mpg format not .mp4 or .avi which seems 
> to be part of the problem but i'm not really sure... We are having 
> standardised encoding discussions at a forum and need to see whether 
> it is an ongoing suport problem. As far as I know only one person oput 
> of 200 hundred or so has managed to get it to play in VLC though I 
> have not seen it myself so can only go on hearsay. We are all using 
> the latest build of VLc so thats not the problem.
>
> Any shedded light would be great,
>
> thanks,
>
> Pete


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