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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

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...

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

guess works for quicktime too and maybe even easier

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)...