Can I use VLC media player to play H.264 from RTP stream?

[crosland]

If so, how do I set it up?

Trying to receive a multicast from a H.264 encoder on an embedded board running InterNiche NicheStack and RTP stack. Using Wireshark, it looks like the packets are good and are arriving at the PC as expected.

I tried using payload type 96 but VLC doesn't seem to understand this and i think is defaulting to type 0. There is some activity in the "Buff:" status. Does that mean VLC is receiving data? The Statistics pane in Media information shows an incrementing count for "Demuxed" and "Stream bitrate".

Here are the messages:

qt4 debug: Using a general info windows
main debug: adding item `rtp://224.0.0.2:1234' ( rtp://@224.0.0.2:1234 )
qt4 debug: Adding a new MRL to recent ones: rtp://@224.0.0.2:1234
main debug: rebuilding array of current - root Playlist
main debug: rebuild done - 1 items, index -1
main debug: processing request item rtp://224.0.0.2:1234 node null skip 0
main debug: resyncing on rtp://224.0.0.2:1234
main debug: rtp://224.0.0.2:1234 is at 0
main debug: starting new item
main debug: creating new input thread
main debug: Creating an input for 'rtp://224.0.0.2:1234'
main debug: thread (input) created at priority 1 (../.././src/input/input.c:230)
main debug: thread started
main debug: using timeshift granularity of 50 MBytes
main debug: using timeshift path 'C:\DOCUME~1\ACROSLAN\LOCALS~1\Temp'
main debug: `rtp://@224.0.0.2:1234' gives access `rtp' demux `' path `@224.0.0.2:1234'
main debug: creating demux: access='rtp' demux='' path='@224.0.0.2:1234'
main debug: looking for access_demux module: 1 candidate
main debug: net: opening 224.0.0.2 datagram port 1234
main debug: Multicast group join request
main debug: IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP multicast request
main debug: net: opening 224.0.0.2 datagram port 1235
main debug: Multicast group join request
main debug: IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP multicast request
main debug: using access_demux module "rtp"
main debug: TIMER module_need() : 23.000 ms - Total 23.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 23.000 ms)
main debug: looking for a subtitle file in C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\
main debug: `rtp://@224.0.0.2:1234' successfully opened
qt4 debug: IM: Setting an input
qt4 debug: Updating the geometry
qt4 debug: Updating the geometry
rtp debug: detected G.711 mu-law
rtp debug: added payload type 0 (f = 8000 Hz)
main debug: selecting program id=0
main debug: audio is disabled, not selecting ES 0x0
rtp debug: added RTP source (1c3b2732)
main error: Invalid PCR value in ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR !
main debug: Buffering 0%
main debug: Buffering 0%
main debug: Buffering 0%
main debug: Buffering 0%
main debug: Buffering 0%
main debug: Buffering 0%
main debug: Buffering 0%
main debug: Buffering 0%
main debug: Buffering 0%

Any ideas?

Regards,

Andrew Crosland