[x264-devel] [vlc] Add scripts/text/marks to MPEG-TS video flow

[Jean-Paul Saman]

Javier Gálvez Guerrero wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I would like to know if there is any option or app to synchronize data
> (scripts or text) and video (bundled in MPEG-TS if possible) flows with VLC
> streaming feature.
> 
> Specifically, what I need to do is, for example, log in an IPTV application,
> then ask the server for receiving an on-demand content. With the video flow
> the receiver device should receive some kind of synchronized marks (like
> Windows Media File Editor can do, for example). I don't know if exists any
> application or VLC feature to synchronize this mark flow or if VLC provides
> any sort of video-marking, but I've looked for it and I've found nothing.
> This marks should also be parsed by the reciving application which would
> process the corresponding petitions.
> 
> An example would be that if you are watching a film and in the screen
> appears someone with a watch, the player application should have any way to
> allow to display advertisements just in the moment, that is why I need to
> synchronize it. Another application would be that, while watching a video
> and logging off and then logging in again (disconnecting and connecting from
> the server), I could continue the streaming from the moment when I stopped
> it, managing some kind of instant marking and submitting in the user profile
> in the server.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance to everyone,

The MPEG2-TS specification has 'splice points' especially for inserting 
advertisements.

Gtz,
Jean-Paul Saman.