[AG-TECH] can vic take pre-encoded video as input?

[Piers O'Hanlon]

Hi gurcharan,

If you have unicast RTP streams that you want to retransmit as
multicast then you could use something like rtptrans from the
rtptools. If you have HTTP streams then they will need to be
repacketised which is something VIC isn't capable of doing - you may
be able to use VLC . RTSP is a control protocol and doesn't actually
transport the streams - usually the streams are transported using RTP,
HTTP, etc. However VLC also has support for RTSP and it may be
possible to use it to transcode/redirect RTSP sessions:
http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Streaming_HowTo

Piers.

2008/11/26 Gurcharan S. Khanna <gskpop at cis.rit.edu>:
> hi,
>
> i was just curious how hard it would be for vic to take as input video
> streams coming
> from elsewhere, such as rtp, rtsp, http streams. would it be possible,
> technically, to
> create a filter/connector that would perform this function? essentially, it
> wouldn't
> necessarily have to re-encode if it were already a vic-supported format,
> e.g., H.264.
>
> thanks,
>
> -gurcharan
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