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0.9.3 unable to play some streams from HDhomerun?

Posted: 03 Oct 2008 23:26
by doachs
Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this. VLC 0.9.3 ( on at least both Mac and Windows ) is unable to play some video streams from an HDhomerun. It appears as though the channels that are sent as 1080i work but those sent as 720p do not, or maybe that is just a coincidence. However all of them work just fine in VLC 0.8.x

Also if I use VLC 0.8.x to transcode the video into a smaller sized mp4 stream, those play just fine in 0.9.3 as well.

Any suggestions? Is this a bug in VLC or possibly something else?

Thanks,
Dan

Re: 0.9.3 unable to play some streams from HDhomerun?

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 20:46
by Jean-Baptiste Kempf
Messages, please? CPU usage?

Re: 0.9.3 unable to play some streams from HDhomerun?

Posted: 06 Oct 2008 15:14
by doachs
No errors at all. Here is what I think it the relevant part of the messages:

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main debug: no fetch required for HDTV-CBS-WCCO (art currently (null)) main debug: rebuilding array of current - root Playlist main debug: rebuild done - 0 items, index -1 main debug: starting new item main debug: processing request item HDTV-CBS-WCCO node Gustavus skip 0 main debug: rebuilding array of current - root Gustavus main debug: rebuild done - 19 items, index 17 main debug: creating new input thread main debug: Creating an input for 'HDTV-CBS-WCCO' main debug: waiting for thread initialization main debug: thread started main debug: thread 2959323136 (input) created at priority 22 (input/input.c:370) main debug: `rtp://@239.255.1.104:1234' gives access `rtp' demux `' path `@239.255.1.104:1234' main debug: creating demux: access='rtp' demux='' path='@239.255.1.104:1234' main debug: looking for access_demux module: 1 candidate main debug: net: opening 239.255.1.104 datagram port 1234 main debug: IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP multicast request main debug: net: opening 239.255.1.104 datagram port 1235 main debug: IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP multicast request main debug: using access_demux module "rtp" main debug: TIMER module_Need() : 44.612 ms - Total 44.612 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 44.612 ms) main debug: `rtp://@239.255.1.104:1234' successfully opened rtp debug: detected MPEG Video rtp debug: added payload type 32 (f = 90000 Hz) main debug: control type=1 macosx debug: input has changed, refreshing interface sap debug: missing SDP media description
Cpu usage is about 1/2 of what it would be when playing that stream.

It looks like it has something to do with the SAP announcement we have coming from another VLC system. If I connect directly to the multicast IP it works. If I use the SAP that works in 0.8, I get nothing. My guess is we have something wrong with the SAP, perhaps we have the wrong program number or something.