Streaming MPEG

JonThompson · Post by **JonThompson** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:05 am

OK, I figured out why I can view MPEGs from clips (albeit not full clips), but not from live feeds.

Streaming MPEG needs to have a hint track that tells the client to play it immediately. Without this, the client downloads the MPEG file indefinitely, and will not play it until it reaches the "end" of the file.

Post by **zoneminder** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:30 pm

Ah, didn't see this one until I'd answered the previous one. Currently I think only ASF works nicely-ish for video streaming though people have reported some success with a couple of other formats. I'm curious to know whether the 'hint track' can be added to ffmpeg mpeg feeds, do you have a reference?

Generally though even ASF seems to lag by about 5 seconds or so as WMP especially does like to buffer!

Phil

JonThompson · Post by **JonThompson** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 4:30 am

http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/streaming/

This is Apple's open source streaming server, which runs on Mac, Linux, Windows, and your kitchen sink. However, that isn't the point.

In their documentation, they talk about what is needed to stream video to Quicktime. Of course, if Darwin Streaming server could be the MPEG streamer for ZM, it would be very, very cool.

Post by **zoneminder** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 7:38 pm

Thanks for the Heads Up. I'll takre a look when I get a minute.

Phil