When you are streaming, does the container matter?

[LEM]

Hi,

Sorry about the newbie question... When you are streaming video I thought that you just need to select the right codec,
but not the container, because the container is only needed when recording files.

Am I wrong?

Thanks

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Yes, you are wrong. Read the streaming howto and the streaming feature page on our website

[Teetrinker]

If you stream elementary streams(in VLC RAW) via rtp, the container doesn't matter. The used RTP Payload Format is from interest.

In case of DSS(Darwin Streaming Server) only ISO Media compatible File Format with hint tracks is a accepted as input.
There are other streaming server like http://live.polito.it/documentation/feng which support other input Formats.
I didn't tested feng, but maybe this streaming server would accept Matroska Files with H.264 and Vorbis or AAC.