[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] H264 over rtsp, v5

[Ross Finlayson]

>I can't believe that there isn't a simpler way to play this kind of 
>content. This repacking is a huge mess, and doesn't belong to a 
>demuxer.
>Since now lavc can decode out of order NALs can't we simply pass 
>them to the decoder assuming that one demux_packet contains exactly 
>one NAL?  (Ross, is this the case? )

Unfortunately I haven't been following this thread, and am generally 
rather puzzled by all of the recent patches to the RTSP code.  (I 
thought this had been working well.)

In any case, for handling H.264 streams, I suggest just doing what 
VLC does (see the file "live555.cpp").  The only extra handling that 
VLC does for playing H.264 streams is to (i) parse the H.264 config 
string (which the LIVE555 library extracts from the server-supplied 
SDP description) into 'extra data' for the encoder, and (ii) prepend 
0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 to each NAL unit, before passing it to the 
decoder.  (I assume that you're using the same H.264 decoding 
software that VLC uses.)
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/