[MPlayer-users] MPEG4-ES+RTP+MPlayer

[Nico Sabbi]

Andrey wrote:

>Good day.
>I have problem with Mplayer(0pre7) or with my hand :-) and want to ask
>can mplayer play over RTP MPEG4-ES stream (video only of course) ?
>If it can't how play MPEG4-ES stream with enother method ?
>I use VP3 board (http://www.vitecmm.com/product.php?id=32) and develop
>for  it  video  server.  When  encoder create MPEG4(elementary stream)
>frames  i add RTP header and sent it to network (don't use RTCP). Then
>i try to view this stream with Mplayer:
>1. #mplayer.exe rtp://192.168.22.10:33700
>player show nothing.
>result:
>Playing rtp://192.168.22.10:33700.
>Connected to server: 192.168.22.10
>Stream not seekable!
>2. #mplayer.exe -dumpstream rtp://192.168.22.10:33700
>player of course dont show anything
>and then i try view <stream.dump>
>#mplayer.exe stream.dump
>in this case player show all right.
>3. #mplayer.exe sdp://channel.sdp
><channel.sdp>
>m=video 33700/2 RTP/AVP 98
>a=rtpmap:98 MP4V-ES/90000
>a=fmtp:98 profile-level-id=1;config=000001b003000001b509000001010000012000
>86c400670c2c109051
></channel.sdp>
>result:
>Stream not seekable!
>
>In case simple UDP sending when all frames created by encoder i simply
>send in UDP socket and then
>#mplayer.exe udp://192.168.22.10:33700
>is not work to, in result:
>Stream not seekable!
>
>All the best!
>  
>

it should work in both cases, infact I remember I used it last year.
The problem here  is that mplayer couldn't seek.
I fixed it using -cache 4096, but smaller values should be enough.
Notice that I used udp, not rtp, but it shoouldn't make a difference.

    Nico