Two instances of VLC playing from Network stream = ISSUE

[fkahhaleh]

Hi,

I have spent a few hours trying to figure this one out and I was back tracing all steps until I got to the point where I have the following scenario (in simplest form)

Vlc-Instance-1 has Media file http://ip/file.x which is an (h.264 stream)
vlc-Instance-2 has Media file http://ip/file2.x (h.264 stream

both can play their stream without problems, however if i run the first instance, and try to run the second instance
the first instance is stopped (EOF_Reached is seen in the debug) and the second instance which we just tried to play works fine.

If i swtich that process of courseit works the other way around. meaning that always the last instance to run is the one that runs and
evyerthing else just freezes. (you must stop and start again to make it work)

this is normal behavior? can it be configured to allow multiple streaming just as it is OK to have one instance to stream while the other
to playback off of the HDD?

THanks

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

You should use a network sniffer (e.g. Wireshark) to investigate the problem. But without further details, it looks like a problem at the sender side, or possibly the network.

[fkahhaleh]

Hi Rémi,

Thanks for the reply.
I have spent the last couple of days troubleshooting and indeed as you mentioned this looks like it is a problem from the source.
will update this thread once I get solid resutls.

Thanks

[fkahhaleh]

I had forgotten to update this post.
The source server actually didn't like to have two connections initiating from the same destination. It was cutting one off as soon as a new connection formed.
Just had to dig into some configuration parameters to get that sorted out.
Thanks.