<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> I am having problems with Adobe flashplayer (up-to-date version) connecting to a stream</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">which uses intra-refresh. I generate the stream using a gstreamer pipeline and feed it to crtmpserver (www.rtmpd.com). </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px;
font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> A sample pipeline is:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> % gst-launch videotestsrc is-live=true ! video/x-raw-yuv,framerate=20/1,width=480,height=320 \</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> ffmpegcolorspace ! x264enc tune=zerolatency speed-preset=veryfast profile=baseline \</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> intra-refresh=true pass=qual quantizer=23
\</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> ! flvmux ! tcpclientsink port=6666</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> This is sent to crtmpserver which publishes the stream at (say)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> rtmp://<hostname>/live/streamFlv</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family:
'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> I am able to read the output using rtmpdump to a file, or to view it on the command line using avplay. But flash doesnt show anything (just the rotating arrow / blank screen).</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> It is worth noting that the exact same pipeline works fine on flashplayers and other players </div><div style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> if the 'intra-refresh' option is removed.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> Would you have any advice or tips for me ? I am willing to dig in, but pointers would be</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> much appreciated. Also, if there are some known issues with flashplayer, that would be great</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> to know as well. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> I did a minor search on the archives, and on the web, but didnt come up with anything.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> The only one somewhat close, and I am not sure is authoritative, was the following link:</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> <a href="http://www.xsplit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=38860" style="font-size: 10pt;">http://www.xsplit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=38860</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent;
font-style: normal;"> After all, I have read that the intra-refresh option does have the first frame as an IDR</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> frame, so the above link's advice may not be valid.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> I'll also be very happy to provide a live stream if needed.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">thanks,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">bgpl</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family:
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