[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Streaming - Supported Containers / Formats

[From: Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 18.01.2006, 17:15 +0100 schrieb tobias kutning:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> As I got no replies on the Maemo-Users List, here again my questions
> regarding Streaming 
> Video:
> 
> I managed to setup a VDR streaming solution to play live video streams
> on the 770.
> 
> The settings I used for encoding:
> "mencoder -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=64 -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=1:vbitrate 
> =300 -vf scale=352:208 -ffourcc DIVX -ofps
> 15"
> 
> I could open the stream without the slightest problems on my laptop
> using VLC,
> using the http-address: http://vdr:3000/Extern/S19.2E-1-1079-28006+1
> 
> However, when trying to open the stream on the 770 I noticed the
> following behaviour:
> 1.) Open with Video-Player: Getting a message like "format not
> supported". 
> 2.) Open with Browser: Saves the stream as a download. But not
> possible to pass the file directly
>      to the Video Player.
> 
> Did anybody successfully manage to stream avi over http to the 770
> yet? Need help for this issue. 

> 
> Generally, what kind of streaming containers are working for the 770? 
> Only Realvideo or also .avi or .mpeg? Maybe someone could clear
> this, as the question arose several times on the Maemo-Users List.

I only managed to get real video streams to work
(http://maemo.org/maemowiki/RealVideoStreams ), but that doesn't need to
mean it's impossible to get avis to stream, just not doable in 1-2 weeks
of tinkering ;)

> The VDR-Streaming would be a perfect solution to watch TV  with the
> Nokia 770, if I could get the Stream to open on the VideoPlayer.  

Yeah, the real video producer thing sucks so bad... I don't have any
objections to converting the video to a format suitable for the nokia
(like, realvideo), but that producer program is just weird on Linux.
There is no way I have >30GB (!) of temporary storage to uncompress my
video first only to get it down to like 176x144 size 50 MB.

And it is statically linked, so I can't just extend the helix library to
support pipes and put it in place.

Someone has more of a clue how to do it than me? I'm at a loss of
ideas... Does the original helix thing support creating RealVideo? I'd
guess no, so no use extending that...
> 
> Thanks in advance for you input, your help is appreciated,
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Tobias

cheers,
   Danny