[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] asf-format doesn't work as stream for XBox360

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 12:09:13AM +0200, Patric Stout wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer schreef:
> > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 11:35:38PM +0200, Patric Stout wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> As I was trying to get ffmpeg to do some on-demand streaming of WMV2 to
> >> my XBox360, I noticed it was always rejected. When I converted the file
> >> to a wmv first, and tried to playback that file, it went okay. So it
> >> made me wonder why that was. After a short search, I found out that my
> >> XBox doesn't like the fact that in the asf-container it is told the
> >> filelength is 0 (which, when writing to a file, is later replaced by the
> >> real number, but of course this can't be done on a stream).
> >>
> >> Now this is done on several places, but only one places my XBox cares
> >> about. So, I made a small patch that fills in a huge value by default
> >> (which normally gets overwritten later on by the real value), which
> >> makes streaming to my XBox via ffmpeg work perfectly. Attached is that
> >> patch. I hope it is useful for more people. Now I can finally watch
> >> movies on my XBox via an on-demand stream from my Linux computer.. too
> >> bad you can't encode HR movies in WMV2 format, but that is an other story ;)
> >>     
> >
> > do wmvs which are generated and streamed by the official tools also contain
> > a -1 in there? 
> >
> >   
> First of, the value (uint64)-1 failed. It in fact are 12 F's, not 16.
> The reason for this is unknown for me, but I settled with the first
> value that did work.

this doesnt sound correct at all ...
have you tried to set some different values for the flags instead of changing
the data size?

and you did try -f asf_stream ?

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