thanks

Thanks a lot for all the work you've done. I've been trying to get project working on Snow Leopard but it's been a little slow going for me. My main problem was first of all installing FFMpeg which I finally solved after finding this blog post:

http://www.haykranen.nl/2007/11/21/howto-install-and-use-ffmpeg-on-mac-os-x-leopard/

It shows how to install FFMpeg using Mac Ports as if it were a .dmg or package so I recommend this for any OSX users (it also simplifies the process of getting libraries such as faad, faac, libmp3lame, x264 etc..).

So, seeing as I now have all the needed libraries I figured that compiling the live_segmenter.c would be as easy as doing a make in the root directory, however, when I did so, the error messages said it couldn't find avformat.h. I decided to replace the #include line in live_segmenter.c with:

#include "../ffmpeg/libavformat/avformat.h"

which is the relative URL to where my avformat.h file is located. This then lead me to the same problem of locating another header file but this time I would've had to modify the #include in avformat.h and I didn't want to start messing around with FFMpeg's library files.

Am I totally off track here or can someone help me out ? I've successfully encoded .mov files into .ts files (H.264 and MP3) using FFMpeg so my next step is to just compile this segmenter and chop up the .ts files.

After I could get VoD over HTTP to iPhone and iPad, at multiple bitrates, I am now looking at live, and face little issues.

I have a Cisco DCM that is able to spit H.264/AAC in MPEG2-TS –> no Xcode needed.
I also don't need to upload to any cloud computing (yet).

It looks then fairly simple but:

1. How to just have ffmpeg to output to the segmenter (no Xcoding)? I was thinking of ffplay udp://239.1.1.1:40000 and pipe it to the segmenter but ffplay just stalls on the udp stream and does nothing.

2. I don't really need the live_upload but simply the segmenter.c that was working for VoD. Again, it does not work and just exits after 3 seconds. I checked your piece of code to fix input from stream. The code I have foir segmenter.c is a little bit different and it seems it already incorporates the fix:

ret = av_interleaved_write_frame(oc, &packet);
if (ret 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "End of stream requested\n");
av_free_packet(&packet);
break;
}

av_free_packet(&packet);

Any help much appreciated ;)

Mika

I'm thinking of trying it with a turnkeylinux.org appliance but some of this stuff is over my head.

After I enabled the plugin it started working great.