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Hi guys,
Now I have problem, which is,
I am getting a H264 stream and if I play with VLC, VLC is playing it.
But when I try to stream it, it does not work.
Tell me what to do.
Btw the error it gives is
main warning: trying to send non-dated packet to stream output!
Thanks to all

Work on a successful transcode locally first and think about compatibility to other players. Prove your compatibility. Also look at overhead in your Task Manager specially in the higher resolutions and if you are trying to playing locally.

If you are having trouble with the transcode look at Messages. Open Messages before starting the transcode.

We really need hardware video support for h.264

I have tried several options & according to my assessment , we can stream and save to h264 from other formats (e.g mpeg2) using vlc but we cannot stream or save to h264 from h264 using vlc although if we create h264 using vlc we can stream it but still cannot save it. Can anybody explians this?

It is possible as I have done it. The real problem is compatibility and spending hours tweaking the encoder settings because the copy function didn't seem to work for the job. While I now have some great encoder setting the real problem ended up being the Nero decoder I was using in Direct Show not having the compatibility I believed it had. After changing the Direct Show decoder it worked but I'm not sure this is a good answer for this problem.

VLC is not a Direct Show Player and I never had problems transcoding h.264 files assuming that the end result was h.264, aac in a mp4 or mov container that VLC would not play its own transcodes. The only issue here is understanding your options and having a powerful enough machine, specially for the higher resolutions. Copying can be acomplished into a MPEG-TS container but the quality and stability suffers, using h.264 as the source.