[vlc] Re: Mainconcept encode play error

[Måns Rullgård]

Vaclav Koldus <vaclav.koldus at avpark.cz> writes:

> 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.

The H.264 video is decoded correctly by ffmpeg.  The problem is
identifying it as being H.264 in the first place.  Normally a Program
Stream Map is included in MPEG-PS streams with non-MPEG2 video for
precisely this purpose.

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Måns Rullgård
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