[Libav-user] SAP announcements with UDP multicast stream ?

[Roger Pack]

mpegts does its own announcing [of streams, anyway] but I'll admit I
don't know much about it...

On 2/5/15, Binna Gurry <binnagurry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all libav / ffmpeg gurus....
>
> I have been trying to get this working and crawling the forums but I
> just can't find the solution.
>
> What I want, is to capture my windows desktop using dshow, encode it
> using x264 into a multicast stream, then announce that stream using SAP
> so that others on the network can identify and decode that stream easily.
> I have everything working rather nicely, EXCEPT for the SAP announcement.
>
> Here is what I'm using:
>
> ffmpeg -y -f dshow -framerate 24 -i
> video="screen-capture-recorder":audio="virtual-audio-capturer" -r 10
> -vcodec libx264 -preset ultrafast -crf 18 -async 1 -acodec libmp3lame
> -ab 24k -ar 22050 -bsf:v h264_mp4toannexb -bufsize 8000k -f mpegts
> udp://224.100.0.1:5001
>
> I've investigated using the sap muxer (-f sap
> sap://224.100.0.1:5001?same_port=1) but that doesn't seem to format a
> usable mpegts stream and it has limited options.
>
> If someone knows how I might generate the SDP information and attach it
> as a sap announcement for this stream, it would be much appreciated!
>
> PS I've posted this on ffmpeg forum also but no responses...
>
> Thanks :D
>