Re: MPEG-2 TS support in commercial or open-source player

Ken Johanson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone summarize what level of support there is now, or is planned, 
> for the helix and commercial players?
> 
> I'd experimenting with live streams via http, and this mux lends itself 
> well to this (minus extra payload overhead mixed with TCP, but this is 
> balanced by suitability for simul UDP delivery).
> 
> One can already pipe mpeg2-ts bitstreams through http using various 
> encoding solutions, and play with VLC. I have not been able to do this 
> with real-player 11 however.
> 
> As for codecs I'm testing h264 (can be opened as a file using ffdshow).
> 
> I've tried AVI but the commercail player at least cannot demux and 
> render this.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ken
> 

Curiously when I run real-player in browser embedded mode supplying a 
http URL to a TS, it does say it is buffering, up to 100% then stops. I 
dont expect to to play per se given that the vcodec is h.264 (though I 
have ffdshow). But this does imply that there IS a TS demuxer, yes? 
(unless there is no bitstream validation during buffering)?

Also I should say that a PS support would be useful too; simpler and 
more efficient bandwidth-wise; though I could not stream one.

ken



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