Caching problems with low bandwidth

[gawady]

Hi everyone,

I made a post about this problem in the development forum, I am re-posting it here as I think it's more related to this forum.

Briefly, I have an RTSP stream, the bandwidth between me and the stream is low.

I have the following scenarios:

*When I set rtsp-caching to a low value (0-1000), all I get is a static frame which remains unchanged
*When I increase rtsp-caching to a higher value (30 second) I get a video of the same caching value duration or a little more (about 40 seconds for rtsp-caching=30 seconds), then the video stops at frame with no farther movement
*When I stream to a file, the file works fine.

In all previous cases, the audio continues working fine, only the video stops.

What I want is watching a live video, I totally accept a low frame rate as long as it's continuous.

So, I wonder what causes this strange behavior??

[gawady]

I found a work around that is very strange, I noticed that seeking makes the frozen video play again, so I made a loop that seeks the video once every one second(seeking would change nothing since I am watching a live stream), and the result was a watchable video !!

I wouldn't say that this is a solution but it gives a clue that something wrong is going on, a lock happens or something.