[vlc] Re: Padding Overhead of low bitrates

[Måns Rullgård]

Remo Meier <remmeier at student.ethz.ch> writes:

> Hi
>
> We are streaming H.264 with RTP and MPEG TS. At low bitrates,
> e.g. 128 Kb/s, we noticed a significant overhead (about 50%), mainly
> due to padding (bits set to 1). Is there a way to overcome the
> problem (besides compressing the stream ourselves)?

Try removing the padding.  Only a few, very stupid players require
it.  In fact, the only thing I'm aware of that does is the Kasenna
Mediabase video server.

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Måns Rullgård
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