[MPlayer-users] Improved RTSP/RTP streaming support

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:02:18AM -0800, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> I'm pleased to report that the "MPlayer" media player has now been updated 
> with improved RTSP/RTP streaming support.
> 
> - MPEG-4 audio and video RTP streams are now supported.
> - Buffering of incoming packets has been improved, and there should now be 
> significantly less data loss when playing high bitrate streams.
> - Audio/video synchronization has been improved (especially after resuming 
> from a pause).
>  - MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video streams should now look better when there is 
> packet loss.
> - In most cases you no longer need to use the "-fps" option to set the 
> video frame rate.  Instead, the MPlayer code will try to figure out the 
> frame rate automatically, by comparing the RTP presentation times of 
> successive packets.

Eh? If packets have presentation times, you should just use those and
not bother with a framerate. MPlayer can handle variable-framerate
streams where it just has a timestamp for each packet rather than a
fixed framerate.

Rich