[MPlayer-dev-eng] Multicast video streams

[Ross Finlayson]

>there is a problem in the rtp module though, in that it should buffer up 
>to 8/16 packets and attempt to reorder them as they come. I'm getting an 
>aweful lot of "unexpected packet sequence number", which results in 
>dropped packets, and crappy mpeg artifacts on the video.

Don't use the "rtp://" support - it's crap, and only works with MPEG-1 or 2 
audio/video RTP streams anyway.  Instead, build MPlayer to use the 
"LIVE.COM Streaming Media" libraries, and play your stream from a SDP file 
(using "sdp://"), or from a "rtsp://" URL.  This will give a much more 
robust RTP implementation.

For more information, see <http://www.live.com/mplayer/>

         Ross.