Bug 0.86: MOV Video will displayed in multiple windows

[klumy]

Download this video and try to play it with VLC

http://www.firefoxflicks.com/flick/inde ... 26&c=false

VLC open 2 video windows und shows the video in one of this 2 window. Normally VLC just open ONE window

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I can't confirm the issue. Can someone else test it ?

[DJ]

You may want to look at Stream and Media Info.. -> Advanced info..

It seems there are 5 streams of which 3 are being reported as video streams. I would venture this is an encoding issue for who ever made and uploaded this file. The only supported formats is Sorenson (SVQ3) and MP4a for audio. If the video had been muxed last in this atrocity the video wouldn't have been buried and may have had a chance of playing correctly.

Well a little further investigation shows Apple photo animation was added and there is an interactive portion at the end of the video. The file burps at the end with QT probably because the mux order was incorrect. VLC does NOT support this.

http://one.revver.com/revver

[klumy]

This is how it looks like on my PC

[Lotesdelere]

Yup, same behaviour here: nothing is shown is the VLC main window and I got two other opened windows.

Ctrl+I found six streams: 4 are video streams (SVQ3, RLE and JPEG*2), 1 is audio (MP4A) and 1 is subtitles.

[The DJ]

This looks like a "composited video".

You have a background, where the video is placed within, buttons etc. VLC doesn't support this atm.

[klumy]

On Windows Media Player it opens normally in ONE window

So I think this must be an issue with VLC

[DJ]

VLC doesn't uses Direct Show codecs nor does it use QT's codecs. So I don't understand what part of the statement "VLC doesn't support this" that you didn't understand?

[klumy]

sorry I misunderstood.
So can we see this support in the future?

[DJ]

Actually while it does work in QuickTime it doesn't work very well. In general mixed video formats within a container is a no no! So it very well may be some time before you see any support anywhere else.

[VLC_help]

At least some warning to users would be nice (like that broken AVI thingy).

[rush4hire]

I have a file with 6 streams (3 video and 3 audio)

It's normal for some servers to have these. Your media player is supposed to select which stream based on your connection. There are high quality streams and low bandwidth streams.

I recorded a bunch of streams with SDP and it wrote all 6 streams, but VLC will choose the best one, which is why I use VLC now..

This stream url has 6 streams
http://69.1.83.130:80/Endavo3abn?MSWMExt=.asf

And I posted here with this issue.
viewtopic.php?p=107931#107931

[CloudStalker]

Hmm, it looks to me that you're resurrecting old topics to futher enphesize your video problem; alterative to double-posting perhaps?

[rush4hire]

Ya. What are you doing? Spamming perhaps?
lol

ok. I got a log using --file-logging --logfile="C:\test\k6.txt"

When accessing the same stream from the internet, where this file was created from, I got this in the log:

Code: Select all

access_mms: selecting stream[0x1] audio (16 kb/s) access_mms: ignoring stream[0x2] audio (12 kb/s) access_mms: ignoring stream[0x3] audio (8 kb/s) access_mms: selecting stream[0x4] video (88 kb/s) access_mms: ignoring stream[0x5] video (43 kb/s) access_mms: ignoring stream[0x6] video (20 kb/s)

But I can't get it to use access_mms as an input module:

I have to sleep and I'll find it..
vlc <input> --sout="#duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=<something>,url=<path to file>},dst=display}"

It has to be something with 'mux'

--mux=<string> Mux module
This is a legacy entry to let you configure
mux modules

from here
http://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help

Oh ya, and here's my topic I started before I found this

viewtopic.php?p=107931&highlight=#107931

[dmelliott]

Similar issue: multiple windows & then a big choke on subscription down loads from several sites including:

http://www.askaninja.com/

which used to work. Plays fine in other players.

[rush4hire]

So access_mss selects the stream for you, so why can't you select your own stream? What is the command for that?

And can you make it use access_mss?

[DJ]

I find most players don't support multiple video formats. In fact I can't think of one out side of a few dedicated players that only support MPEG TS.

[rush4hire]

Not sure what you mean DJ, but when I play this file in WinAmp it chooses the best streams, instead of playing them all in 3 different windows.

What I really want is to reduce the file size of my recordings from 3 GB to 2 GB and so I can watch them on VLC and not freak people out when they watch them.

I've invested 12 hours at least just trying to figure out how to select the video stream from a file. It will select the video from the web site, but not from file.

You can select the audio stream with --audio-track-id=2

[DJ]

Seems easier and less time consuming to pull the mux apart and re-mux the file with the formats you want. Thus making the file size smaller and not confusing anyone when it comes time to play the file. Most players will chose the first video and audio track in the mux or the one that is marked as the default as most media players will not support multiple videos in a container as I have already mentioned in an earlier post here.

[dmelliott]

I reiterate:

Such simple things as the Ask A Ninja subscription downloads cause multiple windows and then a big choke. There are no multiple streams when played, quite satisfactorily, in QT. VLC simply can't handle this very popular source.

This example is sited because it is well known and readily available, but more are becoming unplayable in VLC.

I really hate to say anything bad about this otherwise quite fine application.

[DJ]

While you are reiterating, would you like to think about what you are saying??? QUICK TIME does NOT support multiple videos in the mux and VLC does. For all issues of this nature to date it has been a muxing (file creation) problem. Popularity of a title has nothing to do with the nut making the copy to another format.

[dmelliott]

I have thought about it.

The bottom line is that several very popular downloads work in QT but not in yours. You might want to have some user concern and actually address the problem, rather than bash the messenger.

[DJ]

It's very nice to see someone so concerned. As always the source code is available and patches or changes are welcomed.