Hi,

On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:29 AM, aviad rozenhek <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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"
>> 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

I'd email that guy and ask what the status is - no need for duplicate work.

Ronald
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