[vlc] Re: H263 over RTP

[Jean-Paul Saman]

chris.2.dobbs at bt.com wrote:
> Please could someone help with the following:
> I am writing some code which reads live video , compreses it to H263 and
> transmits across UDP/RTP. I have created the RTP payload according to
> RFC2190 (4 byte h263 header) and fired it at VLC to test. This doesn't
> work and I think I know why. VLC expects elementary streams over RTP to
> be encapsulated inside an MPEG2-TS container - I am unfamiliar witht
> this and have tried simply adding an MPEG2-TS header (RFC2250) and then
> the h263 bitstream, but suspect I need to somehow mux the h263 to mpeg2
> as this is designed to carry both audio/video muxed together?
> Am I completely lost at sea here ? If so could someone quickly explain
> how I can best achieve what I need to do?
> Many regards and thanks for a great product - we use it all the time at
> a certain large UK telco...
> -Chris Dobbs
> Software contractor 
> 
Did you compile against the live555 library too? VLC is not restricted 
to rtp inside MPEG-TS. If you use the udp/rtp access module then yes. 
But using the live555 access_demuxer should allow for these kinds of rtp 
streams.

Gtz,
Jean-Paul Saman.

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