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Re: Status of H.264 Streaming Players



Well, I have tested the brand new 0.8.4 version of VLC and it now _does_ play
H.264 encodings from QT Pro over DSS 5.5.1, using QT 7.3 on OS X 10.4.3.


To be specific, it plays the AmericaFree.TV H264test stream (500 Kbps) using rtsp :

rtsp://streaming.multicasttech.com/H264test.sdp

Regards
Marshall

Here are the highlights of the Announcement :
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	From: 	  email@hidden
	Subject: 	[release] VLC media player 0.8.4
	Date: 	November 26, 2005 1:03:50 PM EST

The VideoLAN team is happy to announce the final version of VLC 0.8.4.
(Note: 0.8.3 was skipped because its technical improvements were too
little)

Highlights from improvements include:
<snip>
 * enhanced H.264 support
<snip>

You can get a complete list by reading the release notes:
http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS

Binary packages are available for Windows and Mac OS X. Other packages
will follow shortly. You can download those and the source code as well
on: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
-----

On Nov 15, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:

Apple and much of the streaming industry is, I think, moving in the direction of
H.264 for video streaming.


However, there is a noticable lack of players other than Quicktime. Here is what
I have found in some testing with Mac OS 10.4


Real - will not play DSS streamed H.264 video - says that the needed video/H264 plug-in is missing
- will play the audio, though


VLC - will play H.264 files from QT just fine, but will not play the streams without extra software
from Live.com (which is a killer as far as anything mass market is involved).


Mplayer - does not claim  to support H.264 in
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/info.html#docs

So, I have yet to find an alternative to QT for the Mac, and I have found no H.264 streaming
support on Linux.


Does anyone else know about H.264 streaming support for Linux ? Something that would work
out of the box ?


Regards
Marshall Eubanks
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