Sorry, by "live" I mean "its happening right now".. as in not from a 
pre-recoded file.  Video is coming from an axis 214 camera which outputs mpeg4 
video and (according to ffmpeg), pcm_mulaw, 8000 Hz, mono, 64 kb/s encoded 
audio.  I can get the direct feed from the camera via rtsp.
As far as the fitcDemo, on my "FITCSpeakerBroadcaster.swf" page, I get an input 
box with a url, a picture of a 5 next to it, and a blue blob under it.
Cant do anything else on that page..  opening the .swf file in notepad shows it 
seems to be a binary file... so it doesnt look like I can get any ideas from 
there.

- - -  Jon


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Nathan P. Johansen
Sent: Tue 4/10/2007 1:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Red5] live streaming....
 
Hi Jon,

When you say a "live mpeg4 stream" what sort of device is this coming from
to begin with?  If it's a camera, then that can be broadcast in much the
same way that the Video Conference demo (fitcDemo) works - the incoming
video and audio are encoded into an FLV format, which you can save and/or
stream on the fly.

Otherwise, if what you mean by "live" as an existing file - in your case
in the mpeg4 format - then you'll have to encode that into the FLV format
before it can be streamed through Red5.  Depending on the duration and the
desired quality and pixel dimensions, these things take time to convert
and generally what you get by doing this "on the fly" is not going to be
as visually appealing as taking the time to encode the file properly.

It might be helpful to know more about what you'd like to do so that we
can suggest how to best accomplish it - or let you know what can and
cannot be done at the moment.  :)

Yours,

Nathan


On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Myers, Jon W wrote:

> So, since it is impossible to use ffmpeg to create a working live swf
> stream, does that mean red5 can't do it either, since from what I can
> find, it would normally use ffmpeg to encode?  So the only "solution"
> is to drop $4000 for FMS?  Or is there some other product out there?  
> So far, I've tried vlc, ffmpeg, ffserver, and darwin streaming server
> (only streams to quicktime).
> 
> If re-encoding a live mpeg4 stream to swf/flv is indeed possible,
> please post a working example (or send me something off list).  I've
> been seaching the net, mailing lists, forums, IRC, etc.. for the past
> two weeks trying to do this, to no avail.  I'm not even sure FMS can
> do it, so its a bit scary to throw away that kind of money on an
> unknown.  Sure, it SAYS it can do it, but so do all the other
> packages.


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