No Local Video While Streaming

[Doan]

While streaming, the video on VLC is all black. If I connect to the server from another VLC, it plays through just fine. It's not a major problem, but if I'm trying to jump around a video, I have to blindly pick a spot, wait for the stream to catch up, and hope I was somewhere close.

Another problem, also not major, but very annoying, is when I pause my stream, everyone who was connected gets disconnected. When I unpause the stream, they won't know about it until they manually reconnect. Any ideas to prevent this?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Don't do that. It cannot work and therefore it never will work.

[Doan]

Don't do that. It cannot work and therefore it never will work.

Don't do what?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Pause or seek while streaming

[Doan]

Actually, it works nearly perfect, other than the clients getting disconnected when I pause stream, but I found a solution to that. I have the clients connect to the server using Winamp. When I pause the stream, they lose connection, but Winamp automatically tries to reconnect until it is manually stopped. So when I unpause my stream, Winamp automatically reconnects the clients within a couple seconds.

Seeking works great, as well, other than the problem I mentioned. Any idea why the server client plays audio, but the video is black? If I could see the video on the server client, I'd have no problems with seeking. But again, I have to blindly click where I think I want to be, and wait for the clients to catch up. I can play the video through VLC just fine if I only wanted to watch the video without streaming, and I can see the video just fine if I connect to the server using a second VLC client.