No video, only audio

[Xenon81]

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!

[rogerdpack]

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

[Xenon81]

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).

[rogerdpack]

If you play it locally it works?

[Xenon81]

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

[rogerdpack]

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

[Xenon81]

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?

[rogerdpack]

did you try clearing the cache?

[Xenon81]

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