RTSP streaming suddenly ends after 60 secs.

[dario-]

Hello everyone,
i'm exeperiencing the following problem using VLC 2.0.5 32 bit on windows7:

• I'm running 2 instance of VLC on the same machine.
• The 1st VLC instance connects to an IP camera using RTSP/h264 then re-streams it (without transcoding) using the following SOUT string: :sout=#rtp{sdp=rtsp://:8554/0.ts} :sout-keep
• The 2nd instance connects to the output of the 1st instance. Everything is ok and the video streams flawlessly until about 60 secs are passed, then the stream closes suddenly with the following log:
  live555 debug: StreamClose
  main debug: EOF reached
  main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
  main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
  main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
  main debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty
  main debug: finished input
  main debug: removing module "avcodec"
  avcodec debug: ffmpeg codec (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) stopped
  main debug: killing decoder fourcc `h264', 0 PES in FIFO
  main debug: saving a free vout
  main debug: reusing provided vout
  main debug: removing module "packetizer_h264"
  main debug: removing module "live555"
  main debug: Program doesn't contain anymore ES
  main debug: dead input
  main debug: changing item without a request (current 2/3)
  main debug: nothing to play
  main debug: destroying useless vout
  qt4 debug: IM: Deleting the input
  main debug: removing module "direct3d"
  direct3d debug: Direct3D scene released successfully
  main debug: TIMER input launching for 'rtsp://127.0.0.1:8554/0.ts' : 153.518 ms - Total 153.518 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 153.518 ms)
  direct3d debug: DirectXEventThread terminating
  direct3d debug: DirectXCloseWindow
  direct3d debug: WinProc WM_DESTROY
  qt4 debug: releasing video...
  qt4 debug: Video is not needed anymore
  main debug: removing module "freetype"
  main debug: removing module "yuvp"
  main debug: removing module "swscale"
• The 1st instance is STILL up and running and it continues serving the stream (i can even reconnect to it), so i think its definitely a problem between the 2 VLC instances.

This exact scenario on the same configuration was running fine on VLC 2.0.3.
If i use HTTP instead of RTSP in the 1st VLC instance the abrupt quit disappear, so maybe its something RTSP-related..

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[dario-]

Ok i found the issue..that was the RTSP timeout setting equals to 60 secs. It appears the VLC client doesent keep alive the RTSP connection, so i had to disable it.
Now i wonder why this was working in 2.0.3 with the timeout setting enabled?

[Sébastien Escudier]

will be fixed in 2.0.6