[x264-devel] Start decoding h264 stream without waiting to I-frame

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

2009/3/25 Amit Yedidia <amitye at gmail.com>:
> Hi All,
>
> I have hardware encoder which sends h264/RFC3984 stream in multicast or
> unicast. This hardware is also controlled by RTSP server (based on LIVE555).
> I want to be able to play the stream using VLC, and join the stream even
> after the playback started,
> The problem is that the source generate only one IDR frame in the start, and
> uses AIR (adaptive intra refresh) - There are no other IDR or I frames.
> This is done to preserve a constant bitrate as much aspossible.
> So if I am joinning the stream after It starts (in multicast scenario), I am
> not able to see nothing.
>
> Is such scenario should be supported in x264/VLC ?

x264 is an H.264 encoder, not a decoder.

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