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I have the following problem with vlc 0.7.0/Red Hat 9.0:
command: vlc -I rc --noaudio rtsp://www.astrojax.com:7070/test.mp4

The connection with the rtsp server is OK. Several request/response are sent/receivec until that:

Received PLAY response: RTSP/1.0 200 OK
Server: DSS/5.0 (Build/464; Platform/Linux; Release/5; )
Cseq: 4
Session: 5349534608418678773
Range: npt=0.00000-59.52000
RTP-Info: url=trackID=2;seq=19618;rtptime=2123607586,url=trackID=6;seq=62154;rtptime=1731893132

[00000012] main module debug: using demux module "livedotcom"
[00000189] main input debug: selecting ES 0x1
[00000192] main decoder debug: looking for decoder module
[00000192] main decoder debug: probing 17 candidates
[00000192] ffmpeg decoder debug: libavcodec initialized (interface 4680 )
[00000192] ffmpeg decoder debug: postprocessing disabled
[00000192] ffmpeg decoder debug: using direct rendering
[00000192] ffmpeg decoder debug: ffmpeg codec (MPEG-4) started
[00000014] main module debug: using decoder module "ffmpeg"
[00000189] main input debug: audio is disabled, not selecting ES 0x2
TaskInterrupt
TaskInterrupt
TaskInterrupt
TaskInterrupt
TaskInterrupt
...

The only thing working after that is the repeatedly printing of "TaskInterrupt" (there is no display window opened)...

Could somebody test the same command line and report the result here ?
Do you have an idea why i get these "TaskInterrupt" ?

Emmanue DUFOUR

This typically mean that no data is coming through. Could be bandwidth, or firewall problems.

Indeed, this could be an explanation because VLC is not the only one to have problems to read these files. I tried an other player with rtsp facility and it does'nt display anything.

BUT

it's quite strange because this behaviour ONLY occured
for .mp4 and .mov files. I NEVER encoutered this problem with *.rm files with this other player. And I tried several servers in the world.

???

Emmanuel DUFOUR

Hello,

Sorry for causing troubles by stopping the streaming server. It's restarted now and also working on standart port 554. You should be able to access:

rtsp://www.astrojax.com/test.mp4
http://www.astrojax.com/downloads/test.mp4 (the same file)

My motivation for providing this file was being able to play self-encoded (xvidenc) video with QT. Unfortunately (and very strangely) QT plays the file fine when played from disc or via http. Only via rtsp (served by the Darwin Streaming Server) this causes problems.

Is there a VideoLAN rtsp server I could try?

Thanks

Markus

Sigmund was right:
VLC was unable to play MP4 files because RTP was used over UDP and most firewalls don't like UDP packets and block them ...javascript:emoticon(':twisted:')

The option RTP over TCP solves the problem...even if the quality of a file like
http://www.astrojax.com/test.mp4 is very bad (moving areas show a mixing of several pictures !).

Should remain the problem of bandwith...

Emmanuel DUFOUR.

On WinXP I have been unable to get VLC media player to do anithing with a URL like rtsp://server.rillonia.org:7060/Fremont.sdp I have tried this in every possible field. The result is always no complaint and the open stream window closes andnothing else happens. On this XP macihine I have Quicktime player, that plays the url just fine. Is VLC broken on XP?