IS it possible to seek in vod mode?

[please help me]

I have a network set up to acces VoD but the seek bar is removed when I access the videos on the client computers.

IS there any way to access the seek bar?

Thanks!

[please help me]

Update:
The seek bar is only missing on the http version.

When I use the rtsp version (Which is what I will be using from now on) the seek bar is there, but when I move the seek cursor, the time changes, but the video and sound continue playing without changing their positions.

Anyone know why this is?

thanks much

[please help me]

anyone know about the seeking problem I'm having?

[The DJ]

Because many files require you to seek a lot and because HTTP is terribly slow at seeking, this functionality was disabled. Several servers REALLY dislike it when you do HTTP seeking on such files, and it's not the intention of HTTP to provide this functionality.

However i'll see if we can put in a "force" option to allow this anyways.

[LaughingTree]

Thanks very much. It's a fairly important function for what I'm setting up! With videos that are up to 2 hours long, it'd be important to be able to skip around without having to watch the entire video.

Also, just to clarify, I'm using the RTSP protocol, not HTTP.

[jamesdo]

Just a flag

I have the same problem. I configure a VOD server for a movie festival. This is a movie's market for professional. So the customers can't see all the movie ... this function is really important.

Now I use VLM VOD, with more than 200 movies without any problem, just the seek bug. I use RTSP also. I think this problem come from the client side (0.8.4a), but not sure.

[LaughingTree]

Hi, I'm just checking to see if any progress has been made to allow seeking using an RTSP VoD interface? The ability to do so would be fairly important to me.

Thanks very much,
iLan

[Guest]

We use the client VLC 0.8.2 without any problem with seek (more recent version is really buggy on this point)

I have a streming server that work for a movie festival in switzerland this weeks. No problem, with 12 clients.

We stream Matroska files, video codec is MPEG2 3700kb, audio MP3 192kb stereo. The server use VLC 0.8.4a, all stream configured as VOD with VLM.

In the futur, we will replace MPEG2 codec with XVid, because of the file size. Actually more than 2.5Go / hour.

[jamesdo]

I forget to login ... the previous message is mine

The only one problem we have is the 10 seconds step, the server lost sync sometimes. Actually we only allow 1 minutes and 5 minutes step.

The client use only the firefox plugin.

[Guest]

I tried switching to client version 8.2 but I have the same problem with seeking where the slider bar and the timer both seek properly, but the video and audio never switch. I am using DivX codec for the video and mp3 for the audio. Could that be the problem?

Also, I have just been opening up the files on the client side by just using the rtsp address in the vlc "open network stream" option. I'm not quite sure how the mozilla plugin gets used, and if that could be making a difference as well.

[jamesdo]

The plugin open this url rtsp://192.168.0.1:5554/stream

Try to use the keybord short cut to seek +1 or +5 minutes. We use only this to seek, not the timeline provided by the VLC client (the plugin doesn't provide a timeline, just OSD display of the current position)

We use RSTP over UDP.

The only big problem we have, it's that we can't pause the stream ... is we use pause, when we play again the movie ... the stream is buggy, sometimes sound loss, frame loss, ...

[anatol]

The only big problem we have, it's that we can't pause the stream ... is we use pause, when we play again the movie ... the stream is buggy, sometimes sound loss, frame loss, ...

I have similar problem, details here: viewtopic.php?p=62776#62776

[LaughingTree]

After switching both the host and client pc's to .8.2 Seek seems to work. I haen't tried pausing yet though. But being able to seek is a vast improvement for me. I hvaen't had much luck with the nightlies though. I can't get the telnet interface to work on them. Thanks for all the help and input thusfar.

[The DJ]

VLM VoD seeking should be fixed in trunk.

[Guest]

We use the client VLC 0.8.2 without any problem with seek (more recent version is really buggy on this point)

I have a streming server that work for a movie festival in switzerland this weeks. No problem, with 12 clients.

We stream Matroska files, video codec is MPEG2 3700kb, audio MP3 192kb stereo. The server use VLC 0.8.4a, all stream configured as VOD with VLM.

In the futur, we will replace MPEG2 codec with XVid, because of the file size. Actually more than 2.5Go / hour.

[Guest]

We use the client VLC 0.8.2 without any problem with seek (more recent version is really buggy on this point)

I have a streming server that work for a movie festival in switzerland this weeks. No problem, with 12 clients.

We stream Matroska files, video codec is MPEG2 3700kb, audio MP3 192kb stereo. The server use VLC 0.8.4a, all stream configured as VOD with VLM.

In the futur, we will replace MPEG2 codec with XVid, because of the file size. Actually more than 2.5Go / hour.

I'm sorry, strange thing. Type in Google 'Xvid codec sound loss' and you'll get a post reply option