Questions on hlsdemux and http server

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Il 24/10/2011 15:20, Davide Milanesio ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> First of all, sorry for my trivial questions, but I am new in this
> mailing list...
>
> I was redirected here after trying to use http://code.google.com/p/hls-player/.
>
> My aim is to create a "simple"(?) gateway receiving a stream based on
> Apple HTTP Live Streaming, and then streaming it on the LAN as
> standard HTTP streaming, so that also "basic" clients can access.
>
> At first glance, the gst-launch string should look somewhat like the following:
>
> gst-launch hlsdemux
> location=http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbop/bipbopall.m3u8
> ! tcpserversink port=80
>
> but I have the following issues:
>
> 1) Pipeline error: hlsdemux not found. In fact, in my Ubuntu
> distribution, the latest available version of
> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad is 0.10.18, while on the documentation page
> it should be 0.10.22.1. How to download such release? Do I need to
> grab the source and recompile GStreamer?
You can compile from source or use gstreamer ppa:

https://launchpad.net/~gstreamer-developers/+archive/ppa

> 2) hlsdemux not documented: is there some documentation available?
> (Google did not help...)

gst-inspect hlsdemux

> 3) Why is there a tcpserversink and not a httpserversink? Is it common
> to have TCP streaming? (e.g. it is not available on VLC)

httpserversink can be easily done using multifdsink google for it, 
however vlc can see tcp stream using tcp:// or something like that

> 4) tcpserversink port=80 does not work on my PC, I need to use a
> different port: is it my fault?

you need to be root to use port <1024

ciao
Nicola

>
> Thanks for your pacience!!
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