[gst-devel] rtsp server MP2T-ES, vlc and mplayer

[cneerf2m at inf.h-brs.de]

Hi,

I tried to use the gst-rtsp-server to stream the video of a camera to vlc, 
mplayer and my vdr.

I succeded in streaming the video to the totem player using the gstreamer 
backend but not to any other players. Those players all 
reported: "video/MP2T-ES failed, RTP payload format unknown"

BTW all the players use the mediaLive library so this might be an issue of 
this library and not gstreamer. I'm not an expert in media streaming.

The 'rtpmp2tpay' plugin reports MP2T-ES as the enconding type for the rtp 
payload. This information ist used by the gst-rtsp-server to create the sdp 
information. So the sdp contains the line 'a=rtpmap:33 MP2T-ES/90000' which 
is parsed by mediaLive. But mediaLive does not know how to handle MP2T-ES and 
closes the connection.

I changed the 'rtpmp2tpay' plugin to report MP2T as enconding type and not 
MP2T-ES and now everything works just fine. mplayer, vlc and the freeboxtv 
plugin for vdr can show the stream.

Regards,

Chris