[FFmpeg-devel] Annex B H.264 decoding with FFMPEG

[Felipe Lalanne]

I know that I can do it that way, but I specifically need to test some H.264
and network protocol properties so I need to have full control over the way
the data is sent and received. Any ideas?

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Martin Lindhe <martin at startwars.org> wrote:

> Felipe Lalanne wrote:
> > I have the following question, i haven't been able to find an answer
> > anywhere. I'm implementing a H.264 video tranmission application, the way
> it
> > works is very simple, I take a h.264 annex B file, divide it into the NAL
> > units according to the specification, and then send each NAL unit using
> UDP
> > over the network.
> >
> > On the reception side, I want to receive the NAL units and start decoding
> > inmediatly (or as soon as posible) for playback, without necessarily
> saving
> > it into a file. I've been trying to do it using ffmpeg, and
> > avcodec_decode_video using a code similar to the one following the text.
> > This doesn't work, as I understand, because a nal unit usually doesn't
> > contain a whole frame (hence the [h264 @ 0x8055550]no frame! message)
> >
> > I'm thinking of concatenating the received NAL units and try to parse the
> > union with av_parser_parse, before decoding the frame, but I'm not sure
> if
> > that would be most efficient solucion.
> > What do you think? Could you give me any suggestions?
> >
>
> why dont you send the stream using the standard RTP payload H264?
> ffmpeg can both send & recieve such streams
> sounds like you try to reinvent whats already there.
>
> > Now that I'm ending the text I'm thinking that I might be in the wrong
> list.
> > If that is the case, I apologize (and could you maybe point me to the
> right
> > one?)
> >
> >
> wrong mailinglist
> ffmpeg-user, https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-user/
>
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