Recipe to reproduce Divx pause problem on udp streams
Posted: 13 Jun 2007 16:52
Streaming a divx movie to udp has a problem when pausing and resuming the stream. The stream player takes a long time to recuperate, if it does, and the audio is usually out of sync. This happens since version 0.8.2. It worked fine in version 0.8.1. I am running this under Windows XP. Here are the steps tu re-create:
1. Start a VLC instance and open a network stream, use UDP and port 1234.
2. Start a second VLC instance and open a divx file (if you don`t have one handy you can download the one I used here: http://www.box.net/shared/8rhlz1e44r)
3. Stream the ouput to UDP, address 127.0.0.1 and port 1234, I also use caching of 1000.
4. When this stream is being played, pause the streamer and resume it. You will see that under the latest version of VLC the video does not resume cleanly as it did in version 0.8.1.
One note: I am running this on a fairly slow PC: 750 Mhz. But since this did not occur on version 0.8.1 I can't blame speed.
Hopefully there are ways to fix this problem.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide.
1. Start a VLC instance and open a network stream, use UDP and port 1234.
2. Start a second VLC instance and open a divx file (if you don`t have one handy you can download the one I used here: http://www.box.net/shared/8rhlz1e44r)
3. Stream the ouput to UDP, address 127.0.0.1 and port 1234, I also use caching of 1000.
4. When this stream is being played, pause the streamer and resume it. You will see that under the latest version of VLC the video does not resume cleanly as it did in version 0.8.1.
One note: I am running this on a fairly slow PC: 750 Mhz. But since this did not occur on version 0.8.1 I can't blame speed.
Hopefully there are ways to fix this problem.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide.