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Date:      Tue, 16 Sep 1997 08:43:15 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MPEG multicast receiver 
Message-ID:  <199709161543.IAA03975@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Sep 1997 14:33:55 %2B0300." <199709161133.OAA05631@silver.sms.fi> 

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It looks great!

Kind of hard to imagine the mbone at least in the intranet not to
take off with quality as good as this mpeg stream .

	Cheers,
	Amancio
	
>From The Desk Of Petri Helenius :
> Amancio Hasty writes:
>  > Would you happen to know how may frames / sec is it trying to send and
>  > at what resolution?
> 
> CIF resolution, 23.98 fps.
> 
>  > 
>  > Also how does look compare to h.261?
> 
> MPEG has not changed since we last checked this, if you want to see
> what 600kbps looks like, pull over
> ftp://ftp.sms.fi/pub/Cisco/outgoing/c36p1_6.mpg (it's truncated I know
> :-)
> 
> Pete
> 
>  > 
>  > 	Tnks!
>  > 	Amancio
>  > 
>  > >From The Desk Of Petri Helenius :
>  > > Amancio Hasty writes:
>  > >  > Curious, which platform is generating the mpeg stream?
>  > >  >
>  > > Precept's IP/TV. The only one I know of which does send RTP
>  > > encapsulated stuff and not some mumbo-jumbo invented by a someone not
>  > > having a clue about interoperability.
>  > > 
>  > > Pete
>  > > 
>  > >  > 	Tnks,
>  > >  > 	Amancio
>  > >  > From The Desk Of Petri Helenius :
>  > >  > > 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 h
acked
>  > >  > >  > 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 o
n 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 lo
st
>  > >  > >  > 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
>  > 
>  > 





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