[MPlayer-users] about how to handle corrupted streaming videos

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Hi!

hong liu <l1436636 <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> Now I use mplayer to play streaming video. The command I used is "mplayer
rtsp://x.x.x.x/test.mp4". I have
> to one question regarding to
> the capability of mplayer on how to handle the frame lost or frames corrupted
in the course of transmission.
> Now I have encoded a 12
> frames of raw video into an h.264 encoded video file using x264 and convert it
into the mp4 format with
> MP4Box. I set the Intra interval is
> 6, so the file types of a GOP are denoted as I0, P1, P2, P3, P4, P5, I1, P6,
P7, P8, P9, P10. When there is only P3
> lost during transmission,
> I want to make sure from Mplayer experts of how the mplayer deal with it.  Can
it decode the incomplete
> streaming video and generate the
> frames either of I0, P1, P2, P4, P5 I1, P6, P7, P8, P9, P10, or I0, P1, P2,
I1, P6, P7, P8, P9, P10? Is it possible
> to concealmen the frame of
> P3?

Not being a decoding expert, I think it is not possible to decode P4 and P5 in
your example without visible artifacts.

Carl Eugen