We are using the gstreamer application on our board (which uses the DM6446) and have setup some basic software to provide a multicast stream over the network. This stream is as follows:
H.264 baseline profile
RTP steam with raw packets embedded
SPS/PPS headers on every I-Frame
We need to decode this stream on a standard Windows based laptop so we've been using VLC for the decoding and playback of the stream. VLC has worked very well except that it provides buffering to the video which is not desirable for our application which requires very low latency and delay. You can set the buffering to a minimum in VLC which works fine except when you drop packets (which can happen quite often since we are wireless). Once this happens it increases it's buffer size to compensate for the drops. The only way to keep it from increasing it's buffer is to manually stop the playback and re-start. So do you know of or can you recommend any Windows based video decode/playback applications similar to VLC that maybe would not have this issue and work with gstreamer?