[foms] Proposal: adaptive streaming using open codecs

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Steve Lhomme <slhomme at matroska.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Pierre-Yves KEREMBELLEC
> <pierre-yves.kerembellec at dailymotion.com> wrote:
>>  In most formats there are file/codec headers that you don't want to repeat
>>  in every chunk (seems to be true for mp4 and WebM).
>>
>> Agreed for MP4, but for "streamable" containers (like MPEG-TS of FLV), the
>> overhead is really minimal for most codecs.
>> And it would probably ease implementation (and debugging) this way.
>
> Does anyone know of any tool that can take a MP4 and split it in
> "adaptative friendly" chuncks ? I'd like to make a comparison between
> MP4 and Matroska on that.

This helped me:
http://www.ioncannon.net/programming/452/iphone-http-streaming-with-ffmpeg-and-an-open-source-%20segmenter/comment-page-1/
Has a link to a segmenter.

Cheers,
Silvia.