freezing when streaming over internet

[silky]

Hi Everyone, Im new to the forum so first post.

I have a satellite receiver which I want to stream over the internet to my laptop, this works perfectly on my home network but when conducting this from a remote location the picture freezes. Im streaming a standard definition picture.

Im a total newbie and have not got a clue how to correct this, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Silky.

[Sébastien Escudier]

not enough bandwidth maybe.

[silky]

Hi,

Bandwith should be fine, Ive plugged this in directly to the modem and Im on 20meg broadband cable!

[Sébastien Escudier]

look at full vlc logs then.

[silky]

OK,

THIS IS THE LOG

main warning: PTS is out of range (38566), dropping buffer
ts warning: lost synchro
ts debug: skipping 120 bytes of garbage
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xf instead of 0x5 (pid=513)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x1 instead of 0xb (pid=661)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xd instead of 0x7 (pid=660)
ts debug: PATCallBack called
ts debug: PMTCallBack called
main error: ES_OUT_SET_(GROUP_)PCR is called too late (pts_delay increased to 1325 ms)
main debug: ES_OUT_RESET_PCR called
main debug: Buffering 0%
main debug: Buffering 2%
main debug: End of audio preroll
ts warning: lost synchro
ts debug: skipping 176 bytes of garbage
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xb instead of 0xa (pid=513)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x8 instead of 0x6 (pid=660)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xc instead of 0xa (pid=661)
main debug: Stream buffering done (1801 ms in 415 ms)
main debug: Decoder buffering done in 10 ms
main warning: PTS is out of range (131355), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (107355), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (83355), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (59355), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (35355), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (11355), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (-12645), dropping buffer
main warning: PTS is out of range (-36645), dropping buffer
ts debug: PATCallBack called
main debug: auto hidding mouse
ts debug: PMTCallBack called
ts warning: lost synchro
ts debug: skipping 120 bytes of garbage
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x2 instead of 0xe (pid=661)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xe instead of 0xa (pid=660)
main debug: End of video preroll
main warning: late picture skipped (4950278 > -2445)
main warning: late picture skipped (4950278 > -2445)
main warning: late picture skipped (4910278 > -2445)
main warning: late picture skipped (4870278 > -2445)
main warning: late picture skipped (4830278 > -2445)
ts debug: PATCallBack called
ts warning: lost synchro
ts debug: skipping 36 bytes of garbage
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x5 instead of 0xd (pid=513)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xe instead of 0x1 (pid=661)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xa instead of 0xc (pid=660)
ts debug: PATCallBack called
ts warning: lost synchro
ts debug: skipping 64 bytes of garbage
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xa instead of 0x1 (pid=513)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xd instead of 0x7 (pid=660)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x2 instead of 0xc (pid=661)
ts debug: PATCallBack called
ts warning: lost synchro
ts debug: skipping 64 bytes of garbage
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xc instead of 0xb (pid=513)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xd instead of 0xa (pid=660)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x2 instead of 0xd (pid=661)
ts debug: PMTCallBack called
ts debug: PATCallBack called
ts warning: lost synchro
ts debug: skipping 120 bytes of garbage
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x7 instead of 0x2 (pid=513)
ts debug: PATCallBack called
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x2 instead of 0xd (pid=660)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x6 instead of 0x0 (pid=661)
avcodec error: more than 5 seconds of late video -> dropping frame (computer too slow ?)
ts debug: PMTCallBack called
ts warning: lost synchro
ts debug: skipping 36 bytes of garbage
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xf instead of 0xc (pid=513)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x1 instead of 0xf (pid=660)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x6 instead of 0x4 (pid=661)
ts debug: PATCallBack called
ts warning: lost synchro
ts debug: skipping 120 bytes of garbage
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xb instead of 0x8 (pid=513)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xd instead of 0x0 (pid=660)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x2 instead of 0x4 (pid=661)
ts debug: PATCallBack called
ts warning: lost synchro
ts debug: skipping 92 bytes of garbage
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xb instead of 0xe (pid=660)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x0 instead of 0x3 (pid=661)
ts debug: PMTCallBack called
ts debug: PATCallBack called
ts warning: lost synchro
ts debug: skipping 64 bytes of garbage
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x9 instead of 0xf (pid=513)
ts debug: PMTCallBack called
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xd instead of 0x9 (pid=660)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x2 instead of 0xe (pid=661)
ts debug: PATCallBack called
ts warning: lost synchro
ts debug: skipping 92 bytes of garbage
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x5 instead of 0xe (pid=513)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0x2 instead of 0xe (pid=661)
ts warning: discontinuity received 0xe instead of 0xa (pid=660)
ts debug: PMTCallBack called
ts debug: PATCallBack called


ANY IDEAS?

[Sébastien Escudier]

ts warning: discontinuity

yes, that's what I said... not enough bandwidth

[silky]

hhmm,

will that be at the remote location or from my home location then?

as I said it works fine when Im at home with my laptop so I presume its the works location?

just done a speedtest at office as follows:

download = 16.84 mpbs
ping = 26ms
upload = 1.88

that should be enough shouldnt it?

[Sébastien Escudier]

look at the bitrate of your stream (when it works locally) in tools -> codec -> statistics

[silky]

ok,

what do I do with that information then?

ps: thanks for all your help so far

[Sébastien Escudier]

You campare it to your bandwith

[silky]

ok,

still in remote location but stats are as follows:

input/read
media data siZe = 7028 KiB
input bitrate = = jumping from 417kb/s to 916 kb/s
Demuxed data size = 6678 KiB.

picture only changes every 30 seconds and no sound at all!

[Sébastien Escudier]

well the information you need is :
the bandwith of the connection between the server and the receiver, and the bitrate of your stream.

The bitrate can't be measured when it does not work, this is useless.

[silky]

OK,

I will have a look at the above information from home later and post back tonight with details.

Thanks

[silky]

ok,

this is what Ive found when its working on local system and is working properly ( no freeze )

input bitrate = 4473 kb/s
content bitrate = 4490 kb/s

so what now?

[Sébastien Escudier]

Unless you have a 5 mbs upload bandwith on your server, you would need to transcode it to reduce the bitrate (thus the quality)

[silky]

ok,

how do I do that?

thanks for help so far

[Sébastien Escudier]

http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-h ... /ch02.html

[silky]

Thanks,

Im using the latest version of vlc player and those options dont seem to be available, to be honest Im not sure what im doing, can you give me a clue what I need to put in where?

Thanks mate

[silky]

Hi Again,

Ive got as far as the convert screen,

I have my input source as the stream from my satellite receiver and I presume I leave the destination folder blank and tick the display output box?

the next box is settings:

it says video h264+AAC(MP4) do I change that?

it then has 2 boxes for deinterlace, and dump raw input, do I tick these boxes?

anything else I need to do?

[Sébastien Escudier]

sorry I can't explain everything here. you'll have to read some docs about transcoding, codecs, quality etc... and also stream output