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in thread Turn network video stream into playable .avi file?

hi

UDP is preferred over TCP for multimedia because of throughput and because if a packet or two is lost, we don't want to be waiting for a retransmission of the packets... which may cause 'jittery' video/sound. If there is a bit of garbage in the video file, most of the 'modern' video players will attempt to jump past the garbage.. No guarantees though.

For the avi header... it will have to be generated. GFF Format Summary: Microsoft RIFF contains the AVI header info

jason

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Re^3: Turn network video stream into playable .avi file?
by McMahon (Chaplain) on Aug 26, 2004 at 21:01 UTC
    For the avi header... it will have to be generated.

    I just wondered if anyone had scratched this particular itch before. Apparently not?

      I'm fairly certain I've seen programs that do this before, though perhaps not in Perl. Look around http://www.freshmeat.net.

      "There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.

      If anyone did, then they didn't release it to cpan or the myriad of web sites.

      jason

      No one has seen what you have seen, and until that happens, we're all going to think that you're nuts. - Jack O'Neil, Stargate SG-1