[gst-devel] Simple local bucle streaming via UDP with gst-launch

[Wim Taymans]

On 02/07/2011 02:12 PM, marcel.tella wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm just trying to steam a video pattern trough UDP, so I've tried this
> command:
>
> gst-launch videotestsrc ! udpsink host=127.0.0.1 port=4951 sync=false

> Really, I think it's correct, and it works, but when I try to open the
> stream with VLC, or caching the packages with Wireshark, they don't apper, I
> think that it means this command is not working correctly.
>
> Why is it not working correctly??
Because the video frames are bigger than the maximum allowed UDP packet
size. Use something like RTP to split the packet into smaller chunks.

Wim
> Thank you very much.