I have VLC on an FC4 installation working as streaming server for television broadcast using a PVR-350 card.
I also have VLC on my desktop running FC4 and on my laptop running WinXP.
I want to stream via HTTP for access outside of my LAN. I've successfully done so without transcoding, but the stream is quite degraded accessed from a cross country terminal (also running WinXP). When I do apply mpeg4 video and mp3 audio transcoding, my WinXP laptop plays the stream, and the cross country terminal plays a smoother video, but my FC4 desktop fails with a segmentation fault when the stream is MPEG TS encapsulated. Here is the error output:
VLC media player 0.8.2 Janus
libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 7, expected 0) for PID 0
libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 7, expected 0) for PID 66
************ IOD ************
* iod_label:1
* ===========
* tag:0x2
* length:93
* od_id:1
* url flag:0
* includeInlineProfileLevel flag:0
* ODProfileLevelIndication:255
* sceneProfileLevelIndication:255
* audioProfileLevelIndication:254
* visualProfileLevelIndication:254
* graphicsProfileLevelIndication:255
* - ES_Descriptor length:82
* * streamDependenceFlag:0
* * OCRStreamFlag:0
* * streamPriority:31
* - DecoderConfigDesc length:63
* * objectTypeIndication:0x20
* * streamType:0x4
* * upStream:0
* * bufferSizeDB:1048576
* * maxBitrate:2147483647
* * avgBitrate:0
* - SLConfigDescr length:8
* * i_predefined:0x1
*****************************
Segmentation fault
When I use MPEG PS encapsulation, there is no difference on the WinXP computers. The FC4 desktop will play sound, but no video. The message log continuously displays:
packetizer_mpeg4video warning: waiting for VOL
Using Xine, I have the same issue (no video) with the continuous error:
bad sequence header
I installed both the server and the desktop versions of VLC from the Livna RPMs (v 0.8.2-0.lvn.5.4), and reinstalled the livdvbpsi(0.1.5) library from source.
Can anyone help me resolve this issue with my desktop? I've finally found a server configuration I am happy with and works via http over the web and am reluctant to change those settings. I've considered running multiple streams (transcoded and un-transcoded) but I'd rather fix the desktop issues.