Sorry for the top-post but wanted to flag this -- I was wrong about the ".ts" file being able to be consumed, it is not --
05-24 16:58:24.496 12619-12619/com.google.android.exoplayer2.demo
D/EventLogger: Renderer:0 [
Group:0, adaptive_supported=N/A [
[ ] Track:0, id=1/256, mimeType=video/mpeg2, res=1920x1080,
supported=NO_UNSUPPORTED_TYPE
]
]
]
05-24 16:58:24.511 12619-12619/com.google.android.exoplayer2.demo
D/EventLogger: loading [0.44, 0.00, window=0, period=0, false]
ExoPlayer sees it, but can't play it.
On 5/24/2018 16:29, Karl Denninger wrote:
> On 5/24/2018 15:38, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> Karl,
>>
>> I can’t help you with your problem with the MP4-format file; however:
>>
>>> 2. Attempting to extract just the video track ("-v") appears to work, and a
>>> file command shows "test.h264: JVT NAL sequence, H.264 video @ L 50", which
>>> should be ok. However, I cannot play that with *any* of the tools in
>>> question, including VLC
>> The latest version (3.0.1) of VLC has a known bug that makes it unable to
>> play “.h264” (i.e., raw H.264) video files. However the previous version
>> (2.2.8) of VLC should work OK.
> Unfortunately it appears that the base ExoPlayer can't decode it,
> which strongly implies that whatever is in that file is no good (I
> took the ExoPlayer demo code, added a link to the H.264 file, and it
> threw up on it) since the same source, hit with the (newly-available)
> RTSP client over UDP on the same network gets the same stream from the
> same camera and decodes and displays it just fine.
>> Also, if you have “ffmpeg” installed, then you *might* be able to creating a
>> working MP4-format file from the “.h264” file by running:
>> ffmpeg -i vid.h264 -c copy vid.mp4
>> (You might also need to add “-r <number-of-frames-per-second>” (e.g., “-r
>> 10”) before the “-i”.)
>>
> That doesn't help me since MP4 cannot be written as a stream (the
> output must be seekable since on close there is header information, I
> presume the length and similar, written.)
>
> That DOES, however, produce a playable MP4 file -- ExoPlayer is happy
> to "eat" it. The difference in "file" output is:
>
> test.mp4: Apple QuickTime movie (unoptimized)
> testx.mp4: ISO Media, MP4 Base Media v1 [IS0 14496-12:2003]
>
> And ffmpeg *does* know how to eat the raw H.264 file produced; the
> data produced here is correct (note the fps rate is right, etc):
>
> Input #0, h264, from 'test2.h264':
> Duration: N/A, bitrate: N/A
> Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Main), yuvj420p(pc, bt709, progressive),
> 1920x1080 [SAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 10 fps, 10 tbr, 1200k tbn, 20 tbc
>
> So the H.264 file is good -- but ExoPlayer doesn't know how to consume
> it as it sits.
>
> testx.mp4 is playable on Android's ExoPlayer, "test.mp4" (which is
> what comes out of the openRTSP -4 command "nude") is not. To make
> testx.mp4 I took the raw (openRTSP -v rtsp:.... >out.h264) file as input.
>
> Interestingly enough a ".ts" file is also consumable although a "file"
> on it says it's a raw data file, so if can come up with a *streamable*
> output from the original H.264 format that works I'm golden..... Any
> idea on what the correct magic incantation is to use to produce that
> format out a stream (e.g. to stdout) rather than a file; the obvious
> ("-f ts") produces a complaint that it is not a proper format.
>
> Essentially what I need to be able to do is generate a video stream
> that remains a stream (can be piped); the intent is to provide a means
> to take camera data from devices that can't support secured data paths
> (e.g. RTSP but no SSL support, etc) and pass it through an SSL/TCP
> channel.
>
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