[FFmpeg-devel] x264 encoding over RTP and playing in VLC

[Dominik Tomczak]

What are the extradata?
Where to put them in SDP?
Why FFmpeg does not generate them?

Regards
Dominik

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Luca Barbato <lu_zero at gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 6/11/10 10:50 AM, Dominik Tomczak wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I'm developing my own software for encoding the raw RGB24/32 video into
>> x264
>> and stream it using RTP to VideoLanPlayer (VLC). I use libavcodec and
>> libavformat. The problem is that I can play the video correctly neither
>> using ffmpeg tool nor using my tool.
>> Could you point me to some samples of ffmpeg code where x264 encoding and
>> RTP muxing is done?
>> When I use ffmpeg with command line:
>>
>>  ffmpeg -i c:/movie.avi -an -vcodec libx264 -vpre normal -b 1000k -f rtp
>> rtp://127.0.0.1:5000/
>>
>
> h264 in rtp requires you to put the extradata in the sdp, so you need to
> feed the extradata in a way or another to the decoder otherwise the frames
> demuxed from the rtp won't have any means for it. *
>
>
> lu
>
> * actually you can deliver the extradata NALs inband but I won't advise
> that for any practical purpose.
>
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