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From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: MPEG multicast receiver
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Petri Helenius writes:
 > 
 >   I'm glad to report that I've successfully received MPEG video
 > directly live from a multicast MPV transmission using a little hacked
 > rtpdump (to get rid of the MPEG payload header) and mpeg-tv. It runs
 > nice around 10fps (without audio, I'm working on that :-) even on my
 > lowly P90. I'm just piping the data to mpeg-tv. MPEG-TV seems to be
 > quite loss-friendly, just some artifacts pop when a packet is lost
 > every now and then.
 > 
Commenting on myself, I got the audio working (though no
synchronization) by piping the audio stream to mpg123 and now I've
1.5 megabit MPEG audio/video live decoder directly off the network
(though it makes me fairly short on CPU :-)

Pete