Hintracks and H.263

Hi,
a question. Is it possible to control which RTP payload
that is used during creation of hint tracks when exporting
a movie ?
I would also like to be able to create H.263 Basline, i.e.
no modes switched on for H.263.
For instance I would like to create a H.263 Baseline
stream which is prepared for streaming with RTP
hinting according to RFC2190.
Or are there any other tools available that can do that
or is it possible to write a plugin for Quicktime which
gives you the possiblity to create this ?
Thanks,
Tomas
Windows XP Pro

captfoss wrote:
After reading through [RFC 3016|http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3016.txt] it seems like perhaps your cameras are using H.263 headers. For something like a live stream, I suppose that makes sence (since you want the least possible overhead).
You can try registering 98 as H.263, but bear in mind that JMF won't be able to decode it unless it's "SQCIF (128x96), QCIF (176x144) and CIF (352x288).", and even that's based on a questionable assumption...
[http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/media/jmf/2.1.1/formats.html]
That is really bad news as my camera's resolution can be chosen from NTSC(720x480), PAL(786x576) and VGA(640x480). Is there anywhere an h.263 jmf compatible codec for one of those resoltions? To be honest this really is not cheering me up very much, as i already put some serious effort/time into jmf/fobs and unfortunatly i do have a deadline. Could the Java bindings for VLC be an alternative?
Sort of a similar concept of using a DVD case to transport an XBox game to your friend's house. You're using a DVD-case to carry the game disc, but you can't use a DVD player to play the disc.
It could be the case that MP4V uses the same encoding as H.263, and in that case, your friend's DVD player was probably his XBox to begin with.That really was a good read :)

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