I-D ACTION:draft-heftagaub-rmff-00.txt (fwd)

[Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>]

For anyone interested in that stuff...

(yea, I am forwarding a whack of these lately but thats just because they
come in bunches...)

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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:15:58 -0500
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Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-heftagaub-rmff-00.txt

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	Title		: RealMedia File Format
	Author(s)	: R. Agarwal, J. Ayars, B. Hefta-Gaub, D. Stammen
	Filename	: draft-heftagaub-rmff-00.txt
	Pages		: 16
	Date		: 16-Mar-98
	
   The RealMedia File Format (RMFF) is designed to be a generic container
   for streaming media data.  This data may then be played back locally or
   streamed over a network using protocols such as RTSP and RTP.  The
   format is data-independent, allowing any data type to be recorded,
   manipulated and played back.
 
   Note: This document is intended to be informational in nature of what
   the file format in use by RealNetworks' RealServer and RealPlayer
   implementations.  Though we think that there are a lot of important
   concepts embodied in this specification, and that it may even make the
   basis of a ''standard'' file format, this is intended to eventually end
   up as an Informational RFC.

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Re: I-D ACTION:draft-heftagaub-rmff-00.txt (fwd)

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>]

At 09:52 PM 3/17/98 -0700, Marc Slemko wrote:
>For anyone interested in that stuff...
>
....
>	Title		: RealMedia File Format
>	
>   The RealMedia File Format (RMFF) is designed to be a generic container
>   for streaming media data.  This data may then be played back locally or
>   streamed over a network using protocols such as RTSP and RTP.  The
>   format is data-independent, allowing any data type to be recorded,
>   manipulated and played back.

So it's not possible to write a RealMedia player based on this
specification, because it's 
"data-independent", i.e. they don't give you the codecs which translate the
bits being encapsulated into sound data.  

Or an I reading this wrong?

So let's see, we have

  Ethernet
  IP
  TCP
  RTSP/RTP
  RMFF
  *the actual bits*

I.e. 5 layers of encapsulation.  Ace.  We should tunnel this over Appletalk
just for kicks.

	Brian


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