[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] try to teach people that rtp is a container...

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 03:28:16PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> RTP is ugly since for every codec you have a way to depacketize it, but
> isn't a monster, it's just an ugly container...
> 
> --- doc/faq.texi	(revision 9720)
> +++ doc/faq.texi	(working copy)
> @@ -419,12 +417,10 @@
>  
> - at section how do I feed H.263-RTP (and likely other RTP bastardizations of codecs) to libavcodec?
> + at section how do I feed H.263-RTP (and other codecs in rtp) to libavcodec?

RTP

> +Even if peculiar since it is network oriented, RTP is a container like any 
> +other. You have to DEMUX RTP before feeding the payload to libavcodec.

@emph{demux}

> +In this specific case please look at rfc 4629 to see how it should be done.

RFC

Diego