-sout-udp-caching . The movie don't play till the end !

[alcos]

Hello hello,

for some reason i must use the option :
'--sout-udp-caching 15000' on my server side, I send RTP packets in multicast mode.

Everything's ok, i can receive my stream on my client side, put on a file or directly play it to the screen.

But ... There is a but , the stream is not played till the end, it seems it lacks approximativly the '15 seconds' that i've set as value in the udp caching.

If I don't put '--sout-udp-caching...' I receive all the movie.

Does someone can tell me why with this option I cannot receive all the movie, and if there is a solution for that ?

Thank you for help and have a nice day,
alain

[dionoea]

Must be because the stream is shut down once all the input is read, without waiting for the buffers to empty. If this is the case, then you definitively spoted a bug. Could you try streaming with VLC 0.9.0 to see if this was fixed ? (if it wasn't please post a bug on http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ )

[alcos]

Yes you're right, it seems to be that when VLC (server side) meet the end of the file, it forgets to push the rest of the cached data !

I am going to try what you suggest and send a bug report.

Thank you for help and have a nice week-end,
alain costanza

[alcos]

So Dionoea, I've just checked the last builds (last modified 13-10-2006) for windows, and i get the same problem so the bug is not fixed !

I am going to post the bug.

bye,
alain

[alcos]

For those who are interested, the only solution I've found to correct this problem, while waiting for the bug to be corrected, is to add on the server side a command like :

--file-cat "BlackFile.mpg"

Where 'BlackFile.mpg' is just a 'nothing movie with black screen' and which last the 'n seconds' which are necessary for vlc to push the end of the principal movie file.

[Laurie]

Hello, this post looks interesting. I'm new to vlc but having just got it streaming over the
net from a capture card. (Linux server -> win xp client) I'm experiencing similar things.

The client connects (server says so) Only when I press the stop button on the server side does the video play on the client side. I'm not using files but a live feed, any idea how could I get around this?

server command ...

vlc -vvv v4l:/dev/video:norm=pal:channel=1:size=80x62 --no-sout-audio --ttl=30 --sout '#transcode{scale=1,fps=25,vcodec=mp4v,vb=32}:standard{access=http,mux=ogg,url=10.0.0.67:80}'

[alcos]

Hello,

it's not the same problem than you that I've got. Anyway I have no idea what can be your problem...

Have you tried the last stable version of VLC (0.8.5) ?
Have you tried a local test, just with a hub ?
Have you tried to disable your firewalls ?
Did you test from a windows platform as a server ? Does it work ?
Did you try another linux distribution ?

I don't see why your stream is like stored on your server until you stop it, it looks very strange, it's not exactly the behavior we expect !

Did you try RTP transmission instead of http ?

Sorry, I can just send you questions, may be one of them will help you, I hope so.

Good luck and have a nice day,
alain