On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 17:26, aviad rozenhek <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm doing some hacking around the IIS Smooth streaming format.
> Microsoft provides an SDK called "IIS Smooth Streaming Format SDK" which
> will enable me to contribute a libav muxer based on this SDK in a few days.
> the microsoft SDK has C interface, is not open source, and it is windows
> only. I am not aware of any licensing issues.
>
> while the smooth streaming format should be very similar to a .mp4 file.
> it is centered around using 'moof' and 'mdat' atoms, along with some other
> microsoft-specific atoms which supposedly could be ignore for file playback.
> unfortunately I am not aware of any tool that can demux, parse or play
> these files without using IIS-webserver as intermediary.
>
> the format itself is documented in a document called "Protected
> Interoperable File Format (PIFF) Specification 
> 1.0<http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9682897>
> "
>
> I think that this segmentation protocol has some interesting ideas and
> merits
>
> --
> Aviad Rozenhek
>

btw it seems there is some relevant development work going on in ffmpeg
http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2011-October/116105.html


-- 
Aviad Rozenhek
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