PLEASE help... strange video bitrate when streaming from WME

[rkleemann]

Hi,

I'm using Windows Media Encoder to output a stream which is then picked up by VLC and then redistributed with sout.

WME is encoding video at 100Kbps. I run vlc as follows:

vlc -vvv mmsh://ip:port --sout '#standard{access=mmsh,mux=asf,dst=:8080}'

VLC is able to pull the stream off of WME, however when it retransmits, the 100Kbps video stream is suddenly 1.5Mbps!

Since I don't want to do any re-encoding of either video or audio, I didn't want to put a #transcode in the command. But just as a test, I put in #transcode{vb=100} in there, and that didn't help much. It did decerase the streamed video bitrate a little, but it was still over 1Mbps

Any idea why this is happening?

[Megoos]

Is there anyone who managed how to fix this issue?
I have got the same setup and the same problem.

[Viper]

is it only displayed in a wrong way (1.5M in case of 100kbps) or is the new stream (streamed from the vlc) really bigger which leads to lags ect.


I also want to use this structure:
win encoder -> vlc -> clients
but if this new stream has 3MB in case of a original streamed 700kbps stream thats not really optimal for a internet livestream. :/

I think we must finde a solution!

[Megoos]

It's much bigger than original stream.
WMP buffering takes much longer than from the original stream.

Any ideas how to fix it, so it can be broadcasted to the internet without such a delay?

PS.
It's not the problem of network since I tested it in the 1Gbps environment.