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<b>Hello,</b><br>
I hope someone can help me with this problem?<br>
<br>
I have been trying to stream a video clip (unicast) from the hard drive
of one computer (guest2) on my LAN to another computer (lab). The
network is 10/100 Mbps and the two computers are RedHat Linux boxes. I
can't seem to get the streaming to work correctly. As soon as I start
the streaming at the server, the video window open on the client side,
but with no picture and some very choppy sound. Eventually a series of
frames start scrolling by with very little sound, but the scrolling
pictures soon stop. <br>
<br>
I started vlc on the lab computer (receiving compute with "vlc -vvv
udp:192.168.17.12 --ttl 12" or sometimes I used vlc -V sdl
udp:192.168.17.12. --ttl 12<br>
<br>
On the server, I start the program with "vls -vv -d udp:192.168.17.13
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:xxx.ts">file:xxx.ts</a> --ttl 12" or sometimes I use "vlc -vvv file_name.ts --sout
udp192.168.17.13 --ttl 12"<br>
<br>
The LAN has nine computer on it at any one time and consist of two
networks: 192.168.17.0 and 192.68.16.0. <br>
<br>
Technical stuff<br>
Both computers are running Linux RedHat 9.0. The CPU is an AMD XP 2800+
(~ 2.0GHz) and the with 256 MB of DDR RAM. I upgraded the XFress86
window system to 4.4.0. The vlc is version 0.7.2. installed from RPM
binaries. The vlc software on the computer doing the streaming was
compiled from the source while the vlc software, on computer receiving
stream, was obtained from RPM binaries. The Linux kernel is 2.4.20-8 <br>
<br>
I tested both computer with the vlc software to make sure they were
working as stand alone units - Both work beautifully, which I think
indicates that the computers are up to the challenge? <br>
<br>
SOME OUTPUT FROM THE SERVER AND THE CLIENT<br>
<br>
<b>server output (guest2)</b><br>
[root@guest2 root]# vls -vv -d udp:192.168.17.13
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="file:/home/bennettr/mpeg/grapes.ts">file:/home/bennettr/mpeg/grapes.ts</a> --ttl 12 <br>
VideoLAN Server v 0.5.6 (Jul 14 2004) <br>
- (c)1999-2003 VideoLAN2004-07-22 18:12:15 <br>
[INFO/Vls] Module "channel:file" <br>
registered2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls] Module "channel:network"
registered<br>
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls] Module "mpegreader:file" registered<br>
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls] Module "mpegconverter:ts2ts" registered<br>
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls] Module "mpegconverter:ps2ts" registered<br>
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls] Module "input:local" registered<br>
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls] Module "input:video" registered<br>
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls] Browsing modules in directory "."<br>
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls] Browsing modules in directory
"/usr/local/lib/videolan/vls"<br>
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls] Module "mpegreader:dvd" registered<br>
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls] Channel 'output1' created<br>
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls] Starting input 'input1'<br>
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/input1] Added program 'program1'<br>
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls] Input 'input1' sucessfully initialised<br>
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls] Executing command1 : 'start program1
output1 input1 '<br>
<br>
************************************************************************<br>
<b>client output (lab)</b><br>
[root@lab root]# vlc -V sdl udp:192.168.17.12<br>
VLC media player 0.7.2 Bond<br>
<br>
[00000214] main input: playlist item `udp:192.168.17.12' libdvbpsi
error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 9, expected 0)libdvbpsi
error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 9, expected 0)<br>
[00000217] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:6 samplerate:48000 bitrate:384000<br>
[00000222] freetype video output error: failed to load font file
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf [00000214] main
input: EOF reached<br>
[00000214] access_udp input: closing UDP target`udp:192.168.17.12'<br>
[00000224] main input: playlist item `udp://192.168.17.12'libdvbpsi
error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received <br>
2, expected 0)libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received
2, expected 0)<br>
[00000228] freetype video output error: failed to load font file
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf<br>
[00000227] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:6 samplerate:48000 bitrate:384000<br>
[00000235] freetype video output error: failed to load font file
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf<br>
[00000234] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:4 samplerate:48000 bitrate:384000<br>
[00000224] access_udp input: closing UDP target `udp://192.168.17.12'<br>
[00000240] main input: playlist item `udp://192.168.17.12:1234'<br>
[00000240] access_udp input: closing UDP
target`udp://192.168.17.12:1234'<br>
[00000241] main input: playlist item `udp://192.168.17.12'<br>
[00000245] freetype video output error: failed to load font file
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf<br>
[00000244] a52 decoder:A/52 channels:4 samplerate:48000 bitrate:384000<br>
[00000241] access_udp input:closing UDP target `udp://192.168.17.12'<br>
[00000250] main input: playlist item `udp://192.168.17.12'libdvbpsi
error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 6, expected 0)libdvbpsi
error (PSIdecoder): TS discontinuity (received 6, expected 0)<br>
[00000253] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:4 samplerate:48000 bitrate:384000<br>
[00000257] freetype video output error: failed to load font
file/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf<br>
[00000250] main input: EOF reached<br>
[00000250] access_udp input: closing UDP target `udp://192.168.17.12'<br>
[00000259] main input: playlist item `udp://192.168.17.12'libdvbpsi
error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 2, expected 0)libdvbpsi
error (PSIdecoder): TS discontinuity (received 2, expected 0)<br>
[00000262] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:4 samplerate:48000 bitrate:384000<br>
[00000259] access_udp input: closing UDP target `udp://192.168.17.12'<br>
<br>
***<br>
<br>
[root@lab root]# vlc -V sdl udp:192.168.17.12<br>
VLC media <br>
player 0.7.2 Bond[00000214] main input: playlist item <br>
`udp:192.168.17.12'libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity
(received 12, <br>
expected 0)libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received
12, <br>
expected 0)<br>
[00000217] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:4 samplerate:48000 bitrate:384000<br>
[00000222] freetype video output error: failed to load font file <br>
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf8<br>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Bennett Robinson
<b>OS/CM-ltd</b>. (Thailand)
Tel: 662 661-6015
Fax 662 661-6462
e-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bennettr@oscm-ltd.com">bennettr@oscm-ltd.com</a></pre>
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