H264 stream not playable from P-Frame in VLC

[pavan.d86]

Hi,

I have noticed that whenever the VLC is supposed to recieve the H.264 stream over network (client mode), the VLC waits for an I-Frame before displaying it. This behavior is observed in VLC 0.8.6 onwards. VLC 0.8.5 can recieve the P-Frame with AIR (Adaptive Intra Refresh) and starts off by displaying it.

My specific usecase is that the GOP size in my application is huge to take care of the bitrate variation. Because of which I have to have AIR support to make sure the client (VLC) plays from wherever it is started, some where in middle of the GOP.

Can anyone please let me know that this is a known problem in VLC from 0.8.6 versions? Can anyone let me know if any other versions above 0.9.6 VLC supports this AIR mode and displays from an P-Frame and not wait for an I-Frame? If not, Can anyone let me know if there are any other players which support it?

Regards,
Pavan D