[MPlayer-users] h.264 rtsp stream from QTSS

[Cian Cullinan]

On 1/6/06, Kasper Peeters <kasper.peeters at aei.mpg.de> wrote:
> > That particular stream you posted will not play in VLC, because the
> > video format (X-QT) is not supported by VLC.
>
> Could mplayer handle that (in principle) through a Windows codec? In
> other words, would fixing this for mplayer only require a fix for
> h.264 over rtsp, not for h.264 by itself?
>

Maybe, but that's not trivial to implement and you would still have
the FPS problem I mentioned.
My advice to you is to avoid h264 for the moment if you will be doing
playback under linux and go with MPEG4-2.

Cian