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Posted: **09 Oct 2008 22:02**

So I've obtained Checksumcoder's slingbox plugin source code ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/slingboxsdk/ )... compiled it against vlc - on linux... and it _mostly_ works.

I'll get about 5-10 seconds of sound/video... and then it stops for an equal amount of time... and then it continues.

When this happens I get the following error on the console: overflow in spectral RLE, ignoring

Here's my log/messages from a session like the above - any thoughts/pointers?

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main error: option dvdnav-caching does not exist
main error: option dvdnav-caching does not exist
main warning: audio drift is too big (1297495), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1169495), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1041495), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (913495), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (785495), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (657495), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (529495), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (401495), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (273495), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (145495), dropping buffer
main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (3172935)
main warning: audio drift is too big (3190430), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (3062430), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (10129), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (2806430), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (165951), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (38244), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (118085)
main warning: late picture skipped (85091)
main warning: late picture skipped (51094)
main warning: late picture skipped (18096)
main warning: PTS is out of range (345555), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (217838), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (317928)
main warning: late picture skipped (284937)
main warning: late picture skipped (251939)
main warning: late picture skipped (217942)
main warning: late picture skipped (184944)
main warning: late picture skipped (151947)
main warning: late picture skipped (137973)
main warning: PTS is out of range (461845), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (450856)
main warning: late picture skipped (417868)
main warning: late picture skipped (383871)
main warning: late picture skipped (350874)
main warning: late picture skipped (317876)
main warning: late picture skipped (303904)
main warning: late picture skipped (270914)
main warning: PTS is out of range (721993), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (594292), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (617351)
main warning: late picture skipped (584357)
main warning: late picture skipped (551359)
main warning: late picture skipped (517362)
main warning: late picture skipped (484364)
main warning: late picture skipped (451367)
main warning: late picture skipped (417370)
main warning: PTS is out of range (941179), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (813466), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (844916)
main warning: late picture skipped (811927)
main warning: late picture skipped (777930)
main warning: late picture skipped (744932)
main warning: late picture skipped (731958)
main warning: late picture skipped (697963)
main warning: PTS is out of range (1155225), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1027530), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (1125632)
main warning: late picture skipped (1091644)
main warning: late picture skipped (1058647)
main warning: late picture skipped (1025649)
main warning: late picture skipped (991651)
main warning: late picture skipped (958654)
main warning: late picture skipped (925657)
main warning: late picture skipped (911690)
main warning: computed PTS is out of range (2841), clearing out
main warning: PTS is out of range (1274368), dropping buffer
main warning: output PTS is out of range (2948), clearing out
main warning: PTS is out of range (1146669), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (1219208)
main warning: late picture skipped (1206242)
main warning: late picture skipped (1172253)
main warning: late picture skipped (1139255)
main warning: late picture skipped (1106258)
main warning: late picture skipped (1072260)
main warning: PTS is out of range (1425985), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1298278), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (1439724)
main warning: late picture skipped (1405739)
main warning: late picture skipped (1372741)
main warning: late picture skipped (1339744)
main warning: late picture skipped (1305746)
main warning: late picture skipped (1272749)
main warning: late picture skipped (1239751)
main warning: late picture skipped (1225774)
main warning: PTS is out of range (1523265), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (1513159)
main warning: late picture skipped (1500190)
main warning: late picture skipped (1466200)
main warning: late picture skipped (1433203)
main warning: late picture skipped (1400206)
main warning: late picture skipped (1366208)
main warning: PTS is out of range (1795051), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1667345), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (1713608)
main warning: late picture skipped (1680618)
main warning: late picture skipped (1666651)
main warning: late picture skipped (1633657)
main warning: late picture skipped (1599660)
main warning: late picture skipped (1566662)
main warning: late picture skipped (1533665)
main warning: late picture skipped (1499667)
main warning: PTS is out of range (1956057), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1828340), dropping buffer
ffmpeg warning: Bits overconsumption: 18918 > 18808 at 5x10
 (wmv3@0x85af2d0)
ffmpeg debug: concealing 94 DC, 94 AC, 94 MV errors
 (wmv3@0x85af2d0)
main warning: late picture skipped (1867170)
main warning: late picture skipped (1834175)
main warning: late picture skipped (1800177)
main warning: late picture skipped (1787197)
main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (3205010)
main warning: audio drift is too big (3205010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (3077010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (2949010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (2821010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (2693010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (2565010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (2437010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (2309010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (2181010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (2053010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1925010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1797010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1669010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1541010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1413010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1285010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1157010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1029010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (902010), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (774010), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (22540), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (518010), dropping buffer
main warning: computed PTS is out of range (20472), clearing out
main warning: PTS is out of range (410492), dropping buffer
main warning: output PTS is out of range (20488), clearing out
main warning: late picture skipped (398133)
main warning: late picture skipped (365140)
main warning: late picture skipped (331142)
main warning: late picture skipped (318168)
main warning: late picture skipped (285176)
main warning: late picture skipped (251178)
main warning: late picture skipped (218180)
main warning: PTS is out of range (806268), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (678562), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (705744)
main warning: late picture skipped (671751)
main warning: late picture skipped (638754)
main warning: late picture skipped (605756)
main warning: late picture skipped (571758)
main warning: late picture skipped (538761)
main warning: late picture skipped (505764)
main warning: PTS is out of range (934789), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (807083), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (852180)
main warning: late picture skipped (819187)
main warning: late picture skipped (786190)
main warning: late picture skipped (752192)
main warning: late picture skipped (719194)
main warning: late picture skipped (685197)
main warning: late picture skipped (652200)
main warning: late picture skipped (639229)
main warning: PTS is out of range (1049726), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (922013), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (945590)
main warning: late picture skipped (912596)
main warning: late picture skipped (879598)
main warning: late picture skipped (845601)
main warning: late picture skipped (812603)
main warning: late picture skipped (799633)
main warning: PTS is out of range (1193193), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1065469), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (1146045)
main warning: late picture skipped (1113051)
main warning: late picture skipped (1080053)
main warning: late picture skipped (1046056)
main warning: late picture skipped (1013058)
main warning: late picture skipped (979060)
main warning: late picture skipped (966086)
main warning: PTS is out of range (1342631), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1214921), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (1313517)
main warning: late picture skipped (1279524)
main warning: late picture skipped (1266556)
main warning: late picture skipped (1233569)
main warning: late picture skipped (1199571)
main warning: late picture skipped (1166574)
main warning: late picture skipped (1133576)
main warning: PTS is out of range (1458118), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (1460378)
main warning: late picture skipped (1427390)
main warning: late picture skipped (1394392)
main warning: late picture skipped (1360395)
main warning: late picture skipped (1327397)
main warning: late picture skipped (1293400)
main warning: late picture skipped (1260402)
main warning: PTS is out of range (1706930), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1579219), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (1608041)
main warning: late picture skipped (1574048)
main warning: late picture skipped (1541051)
main warning: late picture skipped (1508053)
main warning: late picture skipped (1474056)
main warning: late picture skipped (1441058)
main warning: late picture skipped (1408060)
main warning: late picture skipped (1394096)
main warning: PTS is out of range (1852384), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1724683), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (1741772)
main warning: late picture skipped (1708781)
main warning: late picture skipped (1674784)
main warning: late picture skipped (1641786)
main warning: late picture skipped (1607789)
main warning: late picture skipped (1574791)
main warning: PTS is out of range (1980217), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1852510), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (1724793), dropping buffer
ffmpeg warning: Bits overconsumption: 16192 > 16120 at 5x13
 (wmv3@0x85af2d0)
ffmpeg debug: concealing 34 DC, 34 AC, 34 MV errors
 (wmv3@0x85af2d0)
main warning: late picture skipped (1922215)
main warning: late picture skipped (1888228)
main warning: late picture skipped (1855230)
main warning: late picture skipped (1822233)
main warning: late picture skipped (1788235)
main warning: late picture skipped (1755238)
main warning: late picture skipped (1722240)
main warning: output date isn't PTS date, requesting resampling (3345605)
main warning: audio drift is too big (3345605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (3217605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (3089605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (2961605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (2833605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (2706605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (2578605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (2450605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (2322605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (2194605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (2066605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1938605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1810605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1682605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1554605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1426605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1298605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1170605), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (1042605), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (-4173), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (786605), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (167998), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (40313), dropping buffer
main warning: audio drift is too big (402605), dropping buffer
main warning: late picture skipped (57773)
main warning: late picture skipped (23785)

Posted: **09 Oct 2008 22:12**

I can't say much based on what i see here, but it suggests broken/unexpected PTS/DTS values, or a PCR which is not in line with those values.

Posted: **09 Oct 2008 22:28**

I'm afraid I don't speak video-ese... So based on that - what could be going wrong or are there any other diagnostic measures I could take to help here?

BTW, I get the same results if I'm on the local lan or remote on the internet.

Posted: **14 Oct 2008 15:02**

bump?

Posted: **14 Oct 2008 15:54**

If you don't know what video/audio timestamps are, then i'm afraid that i can't help you much.

Posted: **18 Oct 2008 00:15**

I know this sounds like a stupid question, but did you replace the old include statements at the top of the slingbox.c file with the updated ones from the top of the updated http.c file from the 0.9.4 source? Remember, ChecksumCoder created the slingbox.c code from heavily modifying http.c...
*******************************
the old headers for 0.8.6i were:
*******************************
#include <stdlib.h>

#include <vlc/vlc.h>
#include <vlc/input.h>

#include "vlc_interaction.h"
#include "network.h"
#include "vlc_url.h"
#include "vlc_tls.h"
#include "vlc_keys.h"
#include "vlc_osd.h"
.
*******************************
They should be changed to
*******************************
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
# include "config.h"
#endif

#include <vlc_common.h>
#include <vlc_plugin.h>

#include <vlc_access.h>

#include <vlc_interface.h>
#include <vlc_meta.h>
#include <vlc_network.h>
#include <vlc_url.h>
#include <vlc_tls.h>
#include <vlc_strings.h>
#include <vlc_charset.h>
#include <vlc_input.h>
#include <vlc_md5.h>

#ifdef HAVE_ZLIB_H
# include <zlib.h>
#endif

#include <assert.h>

#ifdef HAVE_PROXY_H
# include "proxy.h"
#endif

I have done this, but I don't have a linux box to compile on and couldn't get cygwin to work.

Posted: **18 Oct 2008 02:18**

Yep - but I will make sure to double check.

Posted: **18 Oct 2008 19:46**

Did you do any more code modification? The problem I am having with compiling, at least on cygwin, is when I include the module references in configure.ac and /modules/access/Modules.am is that it kicks out with this error:

configure: error: Could not find libavcodec or libavutil. Use --disable-avcodec
to ignore this error.
See `config.log' for more details.
make: *** [config.status] Error 1

When I don't include it, the compile doesn't seem to have a problem with avcodec, gets a lot farther and compiles all of the other access modules, before it finally errors out after an hour or so... So if you've made other mods to get around this I'd love to see them.

Posted: **18 Oct 2008 20:48**

Did you do any more code modification?

Nope.

Did you do any more code modification?[The problem I am having with compiling, at least on cygwin, is when I include the module references in configure.ac and /modules/access/Modules.am is that it kicks out with this error:

configure: error: Could not find libavcodec or libavutil. Use --disable-avcodec
to ignore this error.
See `config.log' for more details.
make: *** [config.status] Error 1

When I don't include it, the compile doesn't seem to have a problem with avcodec, gets a lot farther and compiles all of the other access modules, before it finally errors out after an hour or so... So if you've made other mods to get around this I'd love to see them.

Sounds like you don't have the dev libraries for avcodec or avutil - question though - why are you trying to compile when you're on windows and can just get the DLL?

Posted: **19 Oct 2008 00:51**

Because the DLL was written for, and works very well with ver 0.8.6... but caused 0.9.2 to error out when it was present, and is simply ignored in 0.9.4. I prefer 0.9.4 to 0.8.6 by leaps and bounds... but I want my slingbox recording ability as well.

I am aware that ChecksumCoder also produced a standalone recorder.exe console-based sling recorder, but it bugs out at any resolution other than 320x240 and I was getting good quality recordings from vlc in 640x480. I have patched Checksum's recorder code where it will now receive the 640x480 video just fine, but his asf.h module won't support it and crashes. The asf code is beyond me for now, so it's VLC or pay $50 I don't have for the commercial app. I'd rather stick with VLC anyway.

Posted: **19 Oct 2008 00:56**

I've PM'd checksum coder - perhaps he can shed some light on your (and possibly my) issue...

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