Re: [Live-devel] mediaServer MP4 support

2013-09-21 Thread Ross Finlayson
> 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

Re: [Live-devel] mediaServer MP4 support

2013-09-21 Thread Joao Almeida
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

Re: [Live-devel] mediaServer MP4 support

2013-09-21 Thread Ross Finlayson
> 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

Re: [Live-devel] mediaServer MP4 support

2013-09-20 Thread Joao Almeida
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

Re: [Live-devel] mediaServer MP4 support

2013-09-19 Thread Ross Finlayson
> 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

Re: [Live-devel] mediaServer MP4 support

2013-09-19 Thread Warren Young
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

Re: [Live-devel] mediaServer MP4 support

2013-09-19 Thread Ross Finlayson
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

[Live-devel] mediaServer MP4 support

2013-09-18 Thread Warren Young
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