[streaming] Re: unclas - Installment 2

[Gildas Bazin]

On Thursday 17 July 2003 23:58, Bennett, Ian MR 3 wrote:
> Carried out some more testing yesterday and discovered when
> "verbose" is checked in the "message" window, I get all sorts of debug
> infomation. Attached is the output of the debug window from my 
> "on-segment" VLC XP box.
> At the start I get audio only, then video once the program loops,
> all OK for a few cycles

You are likely streaming an MPEG 1 file which only contains 1 sequence 
header at beginning of the stream. If the client doesn't manage to catch 
this header, then it can't display the stream.

Streaming with VLC would solve the problem here as it does (force) repeat
the header regularly when streaming (VLS doesn't).

>... then no video or audio where the message "main
> error: failed allocating a new buffer (decoder stuck?)" starts. All the
> debug after that is where I push the "stop" button in VLC. Hopefully you
> will be able to get something out of the deb rather than relying on my
> descriptions!!!

This sounds like a bug in our libmpeg2 based decoder. The decoder is not 
releasing picture buffers properly when the stream loops it would seem.
Could you try this version and tell me if you can still reproduce this 
behaviour ?

http://www.videolan.org/pub/testing/win32/vlc-0.6.0-20030718-win32.zip

Regards,

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Gildas

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