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Problem: When streaming with active transcoding all I get is audio on the client side. On the Server side I get the first few frames of the video, than it freezes and only the audio continues to function as expected.

Set up: Desktop running Windows 7 64bit.

Settings:


Stream output string (As made by VLC by the GUI wizard): :sout=#duplicate{dst=http{mux=ffmpeg{mux=flv},dst=:8080/},dst=display} :no-sout-rtp-sap :no-sout-standard-sap :sout-keep

I've searched the forum for this problem, and I found nothing relevant. Thanks for the help!

the crux of your problem is

mux=flv

VLC's GUI is "auto-guessing" a new container type for you (somebody please tell me that that is a bug--please be a bug...and I will report it...). In general if you use MP3 audio and a streaming name of "/go.mpg" (if you're streaming to http) then the GUI should give it reasonable values. Why AAC fails (VLC client cannot receive audio when coded as AAC) I have no idea, as well. I should probably file that one, as well.

refs:

http://betterlogic.com/roger/?p=3052
http://betterlogic.com/roger/?p=3058

I'm not quite sure I understand you. I changed my encapsulation type, and my codec type, but to avail. With changing these I saw that the mux=flv changed to different file type, and is some cases was not present at all. The thing is the same thing happened, the video would freeze a few frames in, but the audio kept playing (server side) and there was only audio (client side).

If you play it locally it works?

Yes, if I play they video without trying to stream it, vlc plays through both the video and audio content as expected.

might help to post message logs on client and server (verbosity 2).

This is another problem I've been having. Going into preferences and, selecting "show settings: All", Advanced > Logging and then setting the log file and verbosity to 2 out puts an empty log even when I was paying with if before and getting error. I'm running VLC 1.1.4. Trying to solve this problem earlier I found this post :

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=54723&start=0

and nothing helped. Am I just plain unlucky with all of this or what?

did you try clearing the cache?

Yes I have tried clearing the cache, and I've also tried clean installs on both machines.