A problem with VLC 1.1.4

[mpbejo]

I have an application that use VLC to stream a DVB-T channel from my PC and I use Windows Media Player on my Windows Mobile Phone to see the stream.

This is an example of the command line that I use
vlc -vvv --ttl 12 --ts-es-id-pid --programs=3301 dvb-t://frequency=490000000 :sout=#transcode{vcodec=WMV2,vb=384,scale=0.5,width=320,
height=240,acodec=wma2,ab=32,channels=2,samplerate=22500}:std{access=mmsh,mux=asf
h,dst=192.168.2.4:1234/stream.asf}


with VLC 1.0.5 Works!
with VLC 1.1.0 Works!
with VLC 1.1.4 Doesn't Work!

Any suggestion? Could be a bug in this version?
Thank You for replies,
Marco

[ivoire]

Are you able to see the stream using VLC ?

[mpbejo]

Yes I am able to see the stream using vlc and windows media player locally on my pc, but I can't see when i try on windows mobile phone

[mpbejo]

I tried this,
with VLC 1.0.5 and then with VLC 1.1.0 i launched the command wrote above on my pc then i tried to see the stream in another pc and works, then i tried with two windows phone (HTC Tynt WM6 ,Samsung B7330 WM6.5) and WORKS!

Then I installed VLC 1.1.4 i launched the command wrote above on my pc then i tried to see the stream in another pc and works!, but when I try to see the stream on the windows phone DOESN'T WORK!

What changed? What can i do? where can I report this bug?

Thank You

[mpbejo]

Tried with VLC 1.1.5 same problem,
nobody here have a windows phone for tell if he has the same problem?

[mpbejo]

Excuse me,
i know that the developer are too busy to answer to every single question, and a forum is free place where nobody is obliged to answer, but really nobody can help me to understand why with the old VLC version the string wrote above worked and now with the 1.1.5 does not work.
There is not a workaround, or another string that can i try?
Thank You to everybody

[Sébastien Escudier]

do you see any error in vlc logs ?
Do you have the same problem if you use somthing else than the dvb source (a file for example) ?

[mpbejo]

Thank You for reply Sebastien,
As You suggest me a tried to stream a file, this is he command line that i used:
vlc -vvv c:\cipciop.avi :sout=#transcode{vcodec=WMV2,vb=384,scale=0.5,width=320,height=240,acodec=wma2,ab=32,channels=2,samplerate=22500}:std{access=mmsh,mux=asfh,dst=192.168.2.2:1234/stream.asf}
on my windows phone i open windows media player and i type:
mms://192.168.2.2:1234/stream.asf
with VLC 1.0.5 i can see the video perfectly
with VLC 1.1.5 it does not work, after ten second appear the message: "unable to execute the action requested"

About the logs where can i find it, i didn't see in the VLC folder.

Thank You
Marco

[relaht]

try --sout= instead of :sout=

[Sébastien Escudier]

About the logs where can i find it, i didn't see in the VLC folder.

Tools -> messages

[mpbejo]

Sebastien the messages page is empty.

To Relaht
I tried your suggestion:
with VLC 1.0.5 works perfectly
with VLC 1.1.5 after some seconds appear the message: "operation terminated" on my windows phone

Another thing that can help to understand is that i tried to play the video on a PC with Windows Media Player and play correctly with both VLC version.
So I can suppose that something new was added in VLC 1.1.5 in the transcode, and the Windows Media Player Pocket version is unable to recognize the stream file correctly.
This only a my supposition the problem could be totally different

[Sébastien Escudier]

Don"t see anything related in vlc sources between 1.1.4 and 1.1.5
And I do not have a pocket pc to test.
So without detailed log from windows media player, and if I can't test myself (can you find a way to reproduce this on windows ?), I don't know how to help you.

[mpbejo]

Hi Sebastien, but You should check the differences between 1.0.5 (that works) and 1.1.5 (that doesn't work), i tried 1.1.4 and 1.1.5 and both don't work.
About a log from media player on windows phone i will try what can i do.

I send a message to all the people that read this forum if they have windows phone they could try to help us to solve this problem.

Thank You to everybody
Marco

[Sébastien Escudier]

yes sorry I thought it was since 1.1.4
There are a lot of changes since 1.0.5, and I don't know how to find it without testing...

[mpbejo]

Well a little new that could be interesting, i tested all the VLC versions and I found that the problem start with the version 1.1.0

The 1.0.5 is the last working and the 1.1.0 is the first not working there aren't others versions in the middle, so i think it should be sufficient to check the differences in the transcode section of vlc source to understand what happened.

[mpbejo]

New version 1.1.7 but same problem, it sad to see that a thing that worked perfectly now it is impossible to do!
And now that I was finishing my software to see DVB-T on windows phone become rubbish

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

VLC and stream output in particular are severely short on developers. Bugs don't get fixed by bumping forum posts. We need more developers. And to get more developers, we need sponsors to pay them.