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I would like to have a better understanding of the streaming architecture

Say I have a .mp4 file that I want to stream over the network using rtsp. How does VLC do this? Does the container formats have chunks or segements in sequence and VLC loads the chunks in RTP packet? What information does the header of each chunk provides?

To clarify my question, that is how does VLC streamed stored media file? Is the media file segmented and encapsulated with RTP? How does it know what is the transmit rate and the size of the segment?

Thanks,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_ ... t_Protocol
that might answer about your RTP questions.