> I use their tool in my projects (a modified version). They're talking about
> streaming the MP4 *file*, or im wrong?
Yes, you're wrong. They're not streaming 'the file'; they're streaming data
that's extracted from the file. (The 'hint track' hack (which, BTW, is one of
the parts of the MP4
file.mp4
"
I use their tool in my projects (a modified version). They're talking about
streaming the MP4 *file*, or im wrong?
From: finlay...@live555.com
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 00:08:34 -0700
To: live-de...@ns.live555.com
Subject: Re: [Live-devel] mediaServer MP4 support
>From Matroska
> From Matroska developpers:
>
> "Live streaming is the equivalent of TV broadcasting on the internet. There
> are 2 families of servers for that. The RTP/RTSP ones and the HTTP servers.
> Matroska is not meant to be used over RTP. RTP already has timing and channel
> mechanisms that would was
asted if doubled in Matroska."
From: finlay...@live555.com
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:17:54 -0700
To: live-de...@ns.live555.com
Subject: Re: [Live-devel] mediaServer MP4 support
I'm not planning on supporting streaming from 'MP4'-format files anytime soon,
because: 1/ I
> Doesn't MKV have the same stream rate prediction problems as TS?
No, because it (unlike MP4, FYI) stores timestamps along with each frame.
But in any case - as I'll explain in my next email - the "stream rate
prediction" issue turns out to be a 'red herring'.
> MP4 and Matroska will also be
On 9/19/2013 16:17, Ross Finlayson wrote:
1/ It'd be a lot of work.
We thought it would be easy. Since it isn't, never mind.
(Live Networks, Inc. is not a charity.)
You're always welcome to send us a work proposal. We may or may not
accept it, but we will consider it.
3/ We already su
I'm not planning on supporting streaming from 'MP4'-format files anytime soon,
because:
1/ It'd be a lot of work. (Live Networks, Inc. is not a charity.)
2/ The MP4 file format is patent-encumbered, and unfortunately this
company is based in a country (USA) in which software pate
Posts to the mailing list tell me there is some unspecified problem with
the MP4/QuickTime file format related to A/V synchronization, and this
is given as the reason there is no MP4FileServerMediaSubsession class in
the library yet. (Or equivalently, an MP4FileServerDemux class, so you
could