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I am streaming an MPEG 4 Elementary Stream over UDP without the use of RTP or any other protocol. I have a hardware encoder so I do not have an option of the format. I am streaming over a 802.11 wireless network. Because I am streaming over UDP, there is no guarantee of delivery and naturally some p...

I am using a hardware encoder/ video server - MPEG 4 ES is what I get out of the hardware. It sends it out over UDP, and I am receiving it in VLC to play it in "real time". I have no choice for the format. Does your answer imply that there is no way to force VLC to use a specific codec? As...

I have a related problem where I am streaming a MPEG4 elementary stream over udp without rtp. The stream usually plays fine and is recognized as a DivX stream. VLC uses ffmpeg to decode it and everything is good. However, often when I start reading the stream, VLC decides that it is an mp3 and says ...