[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] RTMPE support

[Howard Chu]

compn wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:20:07 -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
>> Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>>> Howard Chu<hyc<at>   highlandsun.com>   writes:
>>> Before sending a new patch, the usefulness of adding a new external dependency
>>> should probably be discussed.
>>
>> Discussion is all well and good, but at the end of the day the original
>> question remains unanswered - do you want the new features or not. Now, or
>> later. This patch provides everything, now.
>
> i havent tested or reviewed, but i think ffmpeg://rtmp:// would coexist
> with this patch.
>
> this could be worked around kind of like how live555 tries rtsp://
> first, then mplayer's realrtsp tries rtsp://. but thats a lot of work
> for not a lot of gain.

No gain. If the stream uses rtmp:// and SWF Verification, you just waste time 
going thru the old code.

> also, i'm for mplayer having rtmp support. with a simple change to
> rtmpsrv one could block flash player from wasting cpu while
> simultaneously sending the rtmp url to mplayer for playback.
>
> now the hard part: getting mplayer -dumpstream to work with rtmp:// ?

That already works with my mplayer patch. I haven't tried with this one but I 
don't see why it wouldn't.

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