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VLC works fine on one computer, on other not
Posted: 13 Sep 2008 22:01
by balů
Hi, here on our college, we use VLC with enabled SAP announcements to recieve TV broadcast. Recently i discovered, that on some computers, it works perfectly, but on other computers VLC does not even load playlist.
All computers has the same settnigs. This happens more on Vista than on XP, but it happens on XP sometimes too.
I dind't figure out why is it so. I tried to turn off firewall and other stuff that coud block packets from going through, but it is still the same.
Any ideas?
Re: VLC works fine on one computer, on other not
Posted: 14 Sep 2008 10:28
by VLC_help
View -> Messages might reveal more info. You could also try nightlies.
http://nightlies.videolan.org/
Re: VLC works fine on one computer, on other not
Posted: 14 Sep 2008 16:40
by Fabo
Unfortunately it stays empty. I will try nightlies then.
(I am one of users with this problem)
--- now I need a pointer - where fo I setup SAP in nightlies? They have different manu logic and I can not find it though I have activated SAP as playlist resource.
Re: VLC works fine on one computer, on other not
Posted: 17 Sep 2008 15:41
by VLC_help
Show settings all option should make settings more 0.8.6 like.
Re: VLC works fine on one computer, on other not
Posted: 17 Sep 2008 17:12
by Fabo
Got it eventually... but still nothing.
Re: VLC works fine on one computer, on other not
Posted: 18 Sep 2008 15:17
by VLC_help
Tools -> Messages gives any additional info about the issue?
Re: VLC works fine on one computer, on other not
Posted: 20 Sep 2008 00:56
by Fabo
Nothing. Not a word there.
Re: VLC works fine on one computer, on other not
Posted: 20 Sep 2008 17:23
by VLC_help
You set verbosity to 2 before trying?
Re: VLC works fine on one computer, on other not
Posted: 22 Sep 2008 11:50
by Tacio
I have the same problem to. I have wireshark pcap dump of sap packets.
http://rapidshare.com/files/147371127/S ... .pcap.html
WinXP SP3, vlc 1.0.0-git-20080919-0711
This is debug output with verbosity 2:
Code: Select all
sap debug: missing SDP media description
sap debug: missing SDP media description
sap debug: missing SDP media description
sap debug: missing SDP media description
sap debug: missing SDP media description
sap debug: missing SDP media description
sap debug: missing SDP media description
sap debug: missing SDP media description
sap debug: missing SDP media description
sap debug: missing SDP media description
Re: VLC works fine on one computer, on other not
Posted: 22 Sep 2008 15:58
by VLC_help
Your SAP output is 100% valid? VLC 0.9.2 has more spec respecting SAP parsing so non valid stuff might cause issues.
Re: VLC works fine on one computer, on other not
Posted: 22 Sep 2008 17:52
by Tacio
vlc 0.8.6 plays it's fine
Re: VLC works fine on one computer, on other not
Posted: 22 Sep 2008 19:19
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
0.8.6 wasn't following the RFC
Re: VLC works fine on one computer, on other not
Posted: 22 Sep 2008 19:26
by Tacio
But as you can see in pcap dump in SDP protocol field multicast server based on vlc 0.8.5...So, what should we do? Should we change server to a new version of vlc?
Re: VLC works fine on one computer, on other not
Posted: 23 Sep 2008 13:39
by VLC_help
Either use old VLC, wait that someone patches current VLC with loosening option or update your server.
Re: VLC works fine on one computer, on other not
Posted: 23 Sep 2008 22:01
by Fabo
The other guy in my room has the same problem, strange... I will get soeone who got it workig with .8.6 try with new .9.2