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Originally Posted by bat999
Hi
The aac codec used in the downloaded flv files from nationaltv.ro is shown by MediaInfo to be:-
" Codec ID : 10".
It seems that modern versions of FFplay and VLC and MPlayer can't play it but older versions of VLC and MPlayer can play it OK. 
Is this because it's an "old" codec that libavcodec have deliberately dropped, or is it a libavcodec "regression"?
Or is there something wrong with their equipment at nationaltv.ro?
Any ideas? |
It might not even be a build issue - just an outdated codec that nobody uses. Except...
The Mediadirect servers belong to a TV Broadcasting company from Romania called Dolce TV, a company which has been broadcasting for about 2 years a free Web TV service for the Romanian citizens, consisting in about 30 national TV stations in .flv format. Its main rival, Ilink (AirTV) used to have both an IPTV and a WebTV service, both optimized for VLC (below version 1.0). Slowly, Ilink has sunk under, and right now Dolce might be taking over the IPTV market which has very few factors in its favor in Romania (cheap cable and satellite services, hundreds of local stations, and a high piracy factor - Ro is the only country with an actual number of about 70 TV channels pirate-broadcasting through Sopcast, some of them high-quality - they literally keep this P2p TV software alive).
Dolce TV might give up the free rtmp broadcast real soon and take over what's left of Ilink, directing their broadcast to VLC, and right now they might be working to "optimize" the streams in order to work with older VLC players (Air TV Romania is still reccomending VLC 0.8.6i to their users). Though RTSP and MMS broadcasts will be an unacceptable compromise to viewers.
04-09-2012, 06:29 AM
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