[streaming] Re: video on demand

[Nico Sabbi]

Il mer, 2004-08-25 alle 18:38, Dermot McGahon ha scritto:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:13:44 +0200, Nico <nsabbi at tiscali.it> wrote:
> 
> > still problems with the TS demuxer or is demux_rtp's fault?
> 
> Sorry Nico. I should have known better than openly dissing
> mplayer in public :)
> 
> I think that demux_rtp is fine at this stage. In fact, video
> on demand is working *reasonably* well.
> 
> The next stage was to implement a new MRL type mcast:// for
> reading raw udp streaming over multicast. There is no rtsp
> for these streams, but I had to add a little code for the
> multicast group joins, and some code to handle the new
> MRL type.
> 
> The streaming tv server is just in a couple of weeks, and
> we've only moved from hubs to a proper multicast capable
> switch within the last week or two.
> 
> So, I was about to begin testing. However, business pressures
> now mean that I need a working udp multicast demo for next
> week .. this is a make or break demo, truely. So, I had a
> look at vlc this morning and it plays the udp multicast
> immaculately. The only slight problem is during channel
> change (we are changing channels using either the command
> line interface over ssh, or using the http interface) where
> on *some* channel changes there is resizing going on which
> looks a little bad. It may be aspect ratios, I need to
> investigate.
> 
> So, I am in the situation where I've modified one player
> (mplayer) to support rtsp/udp/unicast .. and it works
> reasonably well. I've modified the same player (mplayer)
> to handle udp/multicast .. but have problems during playback.
> 
> One time in five it will hold a/v sync and play for maybe
> five minutes before crashing.
> 
> The important stuff for next week is the udp/multicast and
> for that I am probably going to have to use vlc, because
> it works flawlessly. However, vlc will not (unless I code
> it up) handle rtsp/udp/unicast correctly.
> 
> So, I'm at a crossroads. Help stabilise mplayer or jump
> ship and implement rtsp/udp/unicast for vlc. I'm not sure
> what to do at this stage .. but you've always been helpful
> so the very least I can do is to submit some proper bug
> reports. I'll try and do that as soon as possible but it's
> unlikely to be until the week after next.
> 
> 
> Dermot.
> --

ok, I'd like to see this problem definitively solved.

good luck for your demo!

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