Is this possible?

[Pablo]

Hello, i posted this in the request forum but I didn't get any reply...


I'm currently working on developing a multimedia streaming player for PALM devices as my thesis. I have encountered VideoLan in the course of my research and it basically sums up what I want to do (except that its client runs on desktop computers). I'm still in the preliminary stages of my research and honestly, I still don't know much about the technical details in streaming yet..

I have a few questions about VideoLan:

1. Does it stream MPEG files in its raw format? (no containers) or a side question would be, is it possible to stream without containers? I asked this because my proposed system must be able to stream MPEG files directly without going to some sort of transcoding. Say I have an MP3 in my PC, I should be able stream it directly to a PALM device.

2. If so, would it be possible that I just use the VLS to stream the files then I'll develop the player for PALM OS, since the focus of my research is Multimedia player...


Thanks in advance!

Pablo

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Some information about what I want to develop:

1. I should be able to develop a multimedia player for PALM OS that can support codecs (following certain standards)... I should be able to come up with MPEG 4 and MP3 codecs then the player should be to support these codecs... Then for future implementations, the player should be able to support other codecs.

2. Streaming would be over BLUETOOTH.

3. The server part is not the focus of the research so existing implementations can be used.

[markfm]

Not sure about VLS, but VLC will stream in native audio/video CODEC formats (it doesn't change things unless you specificially turn on the Transcoding Options).