Loreno Oliveira wrote:
Apparently, the browser has some built-in smartness for opening pull
streams (the client application starts and controls the stream
transfering). This is uncommon but definitely cool :-)
Thanks for the correction, that is uncommon. Typically, fast playback
is implemented by firing up the media player before the download is
complete, but the browser still handles transport and still writes the
download out to the filesystem.
To step back to your original post...
- It's worth noting that the Video Player has always supported HTTP and
RTSP streaming (although not always with the level integration noted
above), provided the video is compressed appropriately. This is already
documented in the wiki and you can stream video to the device today if
you set it up properly.
- That's not the same as being able to view whatever random stream you
find on the web. To my knowledge, the player does not support MMS
streams and there are lots of codecs it can't read. If there's a
_particular_ stream you want to view you should post a link and you'll
get more specific responses.
- If you're serious about hacking the Video Player to add support for
MMS streams (as you mentioned in your original post), you need to start
looking at the gstreamer sources. To my knowledge the Video Player
sources are not available, and most of the heavy lifting is done by
gstreamer anyway. Bear in mind, though, the MMS streams are often
associated with Windows Streaming Media and are likely to be encoded in
unsupported formats. Gstreamer is the place to add support for those as
well, but it's a non-trivial project.
- Obviously if you can get another player compiled that works for you,
that's another option. I think lack of access to the DSP is going to
prevent most third party video players from gathering much developer
steam, though.
Mike
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