H.264 conversion with FFmpeg (from a RTP stream)

Question

Environment:

I have an IP Camera, which is capable of streaming it\'s data over RTP in a H.264 encoded format. This raw stream is recorded from the ethe

Answer 1

Looks like the stream got packetized. Many container formats split up the bitstream into packets and add a bit of info such as time stamps, length of the packet, etc. This gives hooks to the decoder to skip through the file without decoding everything, resynching when a packet is lost, synching audio/video, combining multiple streams, etc.

Look at the MP4 file format info for more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14