Getting information about Video Players/Status

[VDIEng]

I have constructed a multiviewer application around libVLC that can display up to 12 live video streams simultaneously. I have built the application using v2.2RC2 x64 for Windows utilizing C#:

Every once in a while the live video stream(s) appear to freeze and don't seem to recover unless I stop the player and restart it. Typically only one window will freeze, I ask the Video Player .IsPlaying and it responds with true even though from the user perspective it appears frozen.

When tools are available for getting more information about the video, or more importantly what are the correct questions to ask the player or media? Is there a specific logging function I should be utilizing? I know that the streams are still on the network and live, the same video may be in multiple windows and only a single instance will appear to freeze. Is there are initial values of the media player or media asset that I should consider changing to make the player more acceptable of faults or jitter?

This application work fine 98% of the time but my client is using it to monitor vital information and they often have 40 - 50 live stream going around the rooms. The sources are UDP multicast H.264 with AAC audio as produced by Axis cameras or VBrick 9000 encoders using RTP in this case.

If I can provide any further details please let me know.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

-Tim

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You should look at the logs.