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<blockquote data-quote="Oxan" data-source="post: 841740" data-attributes="member: 97484">You are overlooking quite a few things here:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The part of the Apple documentation you quote speaks about the input format of the stream segmenter. This is a program that manipulates the stream so that it actually works on iOS devices - you can't use a standard MPEG-TS stream. Support for running this segmenter has to be implemented in a server application to get the streams to play.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">What's in the stream from the TV server depends a lot on the used tuner and sometimes also on the channel. Most channels here use MPEG2, others use H.264 and I've even spotted XviD. </li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The VLC app isn't available anymore and probably won't be available ever again. A lead developer and major copyright holder of VLC (imo rightly) prevents it from entering the App Store because the App Store violates the terms of the GPL, under which VLC is licensed. Thus, your option won't work for the 95% of users who don't have the VLC app installed. </li>
</ul>I still think the easiest solution is to implement HTTP Live Streaming (the protocol iOS uses for streaming) in MPExtended. Now that VLC 1.2 is around the corner and ffmpeg 0.9 already released, which both support the protocol, it should be quite easy to incorporate it. I don't have time for it yet, but that doesn't mean someone else can't do it...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oxan, post: 841740, member: 97484"] You are overlooking quite a few things here: [list] [*]The part of the Apple documentation you quote speaks about the input format of the stream segmenter. This is a program that manipulates the stream so that it actually works on iOS devices - you can't use a standard MPEG-TS stream. Support for running this segmenter has to be implemented in a server application to get the streams to play. [*]What's in the stream from the TV server depends a lot on the used tuner and sometimes also on the channel. Most channels here use MPEG2, others use H.264 and I've even spotted XviD. [*]The VLC app isn't available anymore and probably won't be available ever again. A lead developer and major copyright holder of VLC (imo rightly) prevents it from entering the App Store because the App Store violates the terms of the GPL, under which VLC is licensed. Thus, your option won't work for the 95% of users who don't have the VLC app installed. [/list] I still think the easiest solution is to implement HTTP Live Streaming (the protocol iOS uses for streaming) in MPExtended. Now that VLC 1.2 is around the corner and ffmpeg 0.9 already released, which both support the protocol, it should be quite easy to incorporate it. I don't have time for it yet, but that doesn't mean someone else can't do it... [/QUOTE]

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