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Smooth Streaming (ismlmux). * * A few properties (<link linkend="GstMP4Mux--movie-timescale">movie-timescale</link>, * <link linkend="GstMP4Mux--trak-timescale">trak-timescale</link>) allow adjusting * some technical parameters, which might be useful in (rare) cases to resolve * compatibility issues in some situations. * * Some other properties influence the result more fundamentally. * A typical mov/mp4 file's metadata (aka moov) is located at the end of the file, * somewhat contrary to this usually being called "the header". * However, a <link linkend="GstMP4Mux--faststart">faststart</link> file will * (with some effort) arrange this to be located near start of the file, * which then allows it e.g. to be played while downloading. * Alternatively, rather than having one chunk of metadata at start (or end), * there can be some metadata at start and most of the other data can be spread * out into fragments of <link linkend="GstMP4Mux--fragment-duration">fragment-duration</link>. * If such fragmented layout is intended for streaming purposes, then * <link linkend="GstMP4Mux--streamable">streamable</link> allows foregoing to add * index metadata (at the end of file). * * <link linkend="GstMP4Mux--dts-method">dts-method</link> allows selecting a * method for managing input timestamps (stay tuned for 0.11 to have this * automagically settled). The default delta/duration method should handle nice * (aka perfect streams) just fine, but may experience problems otherwise * (e.g. input stream with re-ordered B-frames and/or with frame dropping). * The re-ordering approach re-assigns incoming timestamps in ascending order * to incoming buffers and offers an alternative in such cases. In cases where * that might fail, the remaining method can be tried, which is exact and * according to specs, but might experience playback on not so spec-wise players. * Note that this latter approach also requires one to enable * <link linkend="GstMP4Mux--presentation-timestamp">presentation-timestamp</link>. * * <refsect2> * <title>Example pipelines</title> * |[ * gst-launch-1.0 gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src num-buffers=50 ! queue ! x264enc ! mp4mux ! filesink location=video.mp4 * ]| * Records a video stream captured from a v4l2 device, encodes it into H.264 * and muxes it into an mp4 file. * </refsect2> * * Documentation last reviewed on 2011-04-21 */ /* ============================= 3gppmux ==================================== */ /** * SECTION:element-3gppmux * @short_description: Muxer for 3GPP (.3gp) files * * This element merges streams (audio and video) into 3GPP (.3gp) files. * * The following background intends to explain why various similar muxers * are present in this plugin. * * The <ulink url="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/qtfileformat.pdf"> * QuickTime file format specification</ulink> served as basis for the MP4 file * format specification (mp4mux), and as such the QuickTime file structure is * nearly identical to the so-called ISO Base Media file format defined in * ISO 14496-12 (except for some media specific parts). * In turn, the latter ISO Base Media format was further specialized as a * Motion JPEG-2000 file format in ISO 15444-3 (mj2mux) * and in various 3GPP(2) specs (3gppmux). * The fragmented file features defined (only) in ISO Base Media are used by * ISMV files making up (a.o.) Smooth Streaming (ismlmux). * * A few properties (<link linkend="Gst3GPPMux--movie-timescale">movie-timescale</link>, * <link linkend="Gst3GPPMux--trak-timescale">trak-timescale</link>) allow adjusting * some technical parameters, which might be useful in (rare) cases to resolve * compatibility issues in some situations. * * Some other properties influence the result more fundamentally. * A typical mov/mp4 file's metadata (aka moov) is located at the end of the file, * somewhat contrary to this usually being called "the header". * However, a <link linkend="Gst3GPPMux--faststart">faststart</link> file will * (with some effort) arrange this to be located near start of the file, * which then allows it e.g. to be played while downloading. * Alternatively, rather than having one chunk of metadata at start (or end), * there can be some metadata at start and most of the other data can be spread * out into fragments of <link linkend="Gst3GPPMux--fragment-duration">fragment-duration</link>. * If such fragmented layout is intended for streaming purposes, then * <link linkend="Gst3GPPMux--streamable">streamable</link> allows foregoing to add * index metadata (at the end of file). * * <link linkend="Gst3GPPMux--dts-method">dts-method</link> allows selecting a * method for managing input timestamps (stay tuned for 0.11 to have this * automagically settled). The default delta/duration method should handle nice * (aka perfect streams) just fine, but may experience problems otherwise * (e.g. input stream with re-ordered B-frames and/or with frame dropping). * The re-ordering approach re-assigns incoming timestamps in ascending order * to incoming buffers and offers an alternative in such cases. In cases where * that might fail, the remaining method can be tried, which is exact and * according to specs, but might experience playback on not so spec-wise players. * Note that this latter approach also requires one to enable * <link linkend="Gst3GPPMux--presentation-timestamp">presentation-timestamp</link>. * * <refsect2> * <title>Example pipelines</title> * |[ * gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src num-buffers=50 ! queue ! ffenc_h263 ! 3gppmux ! filesink location=video.3gp * ]| * Records a video stream captured from a v4l2 device, encodes it into H.263 * and muxes it into an 3gp file. * </refsect2> * * Documentation last reviewed on 2011-04-21 */ /* ============================= mj2pmux ==================================== */ /** * SECTION:element-mj2mux * @short_description: Muxer for Motion JPEG-2000 (.mj2) files * * This element merges streams (audio and video) into MJ2 (.mj2) files. * * The following background intends to explain why various similar muxers * are present in this plugin. * * The <ulink url="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/qtfileformat.pdf"> * QuickTime file format specification</ulink> served as basis for the MP4 file * format specification (mp4mux), and as such the QuickTime file structure is * nearly identical to the so-called ISO Base Media file format defined in * ISO 14496-12 (except for some media specific parts). * In turn, the latter ISO Base Media format was further specialized as a * Motion JPEG-2000 file format in ISO 15444-3 (mj2mux) * and in various 3GPP(2) specs (3gppmux). * The fragmented file features defined (only) in ISO Base Media are used by * ISMV files making up (a.o.) Smooth Streaming (ismlmux). * * A few properties (<link linkend="GstMJ2Mux--movie-timescale">movie-timescale</link>, * <link linkend="GstMJ2Mux--trak-timescale">trak-timescale</link>) allow adjusting * some technical parameters, which might be useful in (rare) cases to resolve * compatibility issues in some situations. * * Some other properties influence the result more fundamentally. * A typical mov/mp4 file's metadata (aka moov) is located at the end of the file, * somewhat contrary to this usually being called "the header". * However, a <link linkend="GstMJ2Mux--faststart">faststart</link> file will * (with some effort) arrange this to be located near start of the file, * which then allows it e.g. to be played while downloading. * Alternatively, rather than having one chunk of metadata at start (or end), * there can be some metadata at start and most of the other data can be spread * out into fragments of <link linkend="GstMJ2Mux--fragment-duration">fragment-duration</link>. * If such fragmented layout is intended for streaming purposes, then * <link linkend="GstMJ2Mux--streamable">streamable</link> allows foregoing to add * index metadata (at the end of file). * * <link linkend="GstMJ2Mux--dts-method">dts-method</link> allows selecting a * method for managing input timestamps (stay tuned for 0.11 to have this * automagically settled). The default delta/duration method should handle nice * (aka perfect streams) just fine, but may experience problems otherwise * (e.g. input stream with re-ordered B-frames and/or with frame dropping). * The re-ordering approach re-assigns incoming timestamps in ascending order * to incoming buffers and offers an alternative in such cases. In cases where * that might fail, the remaining method can be tried, which is exact and * according to specs, but might experience playback on not so spec-wise players. * Note that this latter approach also requires one to enable * <link linkend="GstMJ2Mux--presentation-timestamp">presentation-timestamp</link>. * * <refsect2> * <title>Example pipelines</title> * |[ * gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src num-buffers=50 ! queue ! jp2kenc ! mj2mux ! filesink location=video.mj2 * ]| * Records a video stream captured from a v4l2 device, encodes it into JPEG-2000 * and muxes it into an mj2 file. * </refsect2> * * Documentation last reviewed on 2011-04-21 */ /* ============================= ismlmux ==================================== */ /** * SECTION:element-ismlmux * @short_description: Muxer for ISML smooth streaming (.isml) files * * This element merges streams (audio and video) into MJ2 (.mj2) files. * * The following background intends to explain why various similar muxers * are present in this plugin. * * The <ulink url="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/resources/qtfileformat.pdf"> * QuickTime file format specification</ulink> served as basis for the MP4 file * format specification (mp4mux), and as such the QuickTime file structure is * nearly identical to the so-called ISO Base Media file format defined in * ISO 14496-12 (except for some media specific parts). * In turn, the latter ISO Base Media format was further specialized as a * Motion JPEG-2000 file format in ISO 15444-3 (mj2mux) * and in various 3GPP(2) specs (3gppmux). * The fragmented file features defined (only) in ISO Base Media are used by * ISMV files making up (a.o.) Smooth Streaming (ismlmux). * * A few properties (<link linkend="GstISMLMux--movie-timescale">movie-timescale</link>, * <link linkend="GstISMLMux--trak-timescale">trak-timescale</link>) allow adjusting * some technical parameters, which might be useful in (rare) cases to resolve * compatibility issues in some situations. * * Some other properties influence the result more fundamentally. * A typical mov/mp4 file's metadata (aka moov) is located at the end of the file, * somewhat contrary to this usually being called "the header". * However, a <link linkend="GstISMLMux--faststart">faststart</link> file will * (with some effort) arrange this to be located near start of the file, * which then allows it e.g. to be played while downloading. * Alternatively, rather than having one chunk of metadata at start (or end), * there can be some metadata at start and most of the other data can be spread * out into fragments of <link linkend="GstISMLMux--fragment-duration">fragment-duration</link>. * If such fragmented layout is intended for streaming purposes, then * <link linkend="GstISMLMux--streamable">streamable</link> allows foregoing to add * index metadata (at the end of file). * * <link linkend="GstISMLMux--dts-method">dts-method</link> allows selecting a * method for managing input timestamps (stay tuned for 0.11 to have this * automagically settled). The default delta/duration method should handle nice * (aka perfect streams) just fine, but may experience problems otherwise * (e.g. input stream with re-ordered B-frames and/or with frame dropping). * The re-ordering approach re-assigns incoming timestamps in ascending order * to incoming buffers and offers an alternative in such cases. In cases where * that might fail, the remaining method can be tried, which is exact and * according to specs, but might experience playback on not so spec-wise players. * Note that this latter approach also requires one to enable * <link linkend="GstISMLMux--presentation-timestamp">presentation-timestamp</link>. * * <refsect2> * <title>Example pipelines</title> * |[ * gst-launch-1.0 v4l2src num-buffers=50 ! queue ! jp2kenc ! mj2mux ! filesink location=video.mj2 * ]| * Records a video stream captured from a v4l2 device, encodes it into JPEG-2000 * and muxes it into an mj2 file. * </refsect2> * * Documentation last reviewed on 2011-04-21 */