HTTP streaming to Quicktime

[mmxtreme]

Hi,
I would like to stream some content using the HTTP streaming feature of VLC to Quicktime clients. I would much rather use RTP/RTSP, but ultimately I want to stream to the iPhone, which doesn't support it yet.

For my tests, I've got a local movie file, and I use "Stream to network" wizard with HTTP streaming (I leave it on port 8080), then I transcode to MPEG-4 video 512kb, MPEG-4 audio 128kb. I tried both MPEG-TS, as well as MP4 encapsulation, but neither seem to work with Quicktime Quicktime says "The URL is not valid". I suspect this is because the "file" VLC serves over HTTP is not hinted for Quicktime.

i.e.:

:sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=512,acodec=mp4a,ab=128}:standard{mux=ts,dst=,access=http}:sout-transcode-soverlay=0
OR
:sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=512,acodec=mp4a,ab=128}:standard{mux=mp4,dst=,access=http}:sout-transcode-soverlay=0

Any solution or clarifications on if this is supposed to be possible to do with VLC will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[Jossnaz]

i doubt you can stream to quicktime using http (i tried myself once and was unable to get it working)

you can, of course, output to 2 different sout streams. Do a http output stream for iphone and a rtsp stream for quicktime.

btw you cannot do rtsp streaming to a client who wants the stream, can you? you first have to define who will get the stream...

[Jossnaz]

http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation: ... ile_Phones

guess works for quicktime too and maybe even easier

[mmxtreme]

Can someone with more insights as how this HTTP streaming is actually packaged by VLC tell if this is even possible. Is the HTTP streaming kind of a custom not standard way of dropping MPEG TS over HTTP or if it's supposed to look just like a real MPEG file download over HTTP (in this case Quicktime should be able to do progressive download)...