[streaming] Re: (vlc cannot play its own mp3 audio streams??)

[michel.vandenbergh at uhasselt.be]

Some more details. The phenomem reported in the previous post also occurs if
server and client are not on the same machine.

On the other hand vlc has no problem playing shoutcast streams.

So why can't vlc play its own mp3 audio streams?

Regards,
Michel


michel.vandenbergh at uhasselt.be wrote:

>I have a very bizar problem. I generate a stream as follows
>
>vlc muziekradio.pls
>--sout='#transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2}:standard{access=http,mux=raw,dst=:11000}'
>--sout-keep
>
>Then I listen to this stream locally with
>
>vlc http://localhost:11000
>
>The sound is fine for 3 or 4 songs but then it becomes very choppy and
>ultimately it disappears.  If you change each song manually (using the
>interface) after letting it play for a few seconds  then the sound
>also becomes choppy after 3 or 4 songs (in other words in this way you can
>induce the problem very quickly).
>
>This is a client problem since if you start/stop the sound on the client then
>the sound is fine again.  Furthermore the same stream plays fine in xmms.
>I do not understand however how the client can be aware of song changes if one
>uses the option --sout-keep.
>
>I would be very happy is somebody could explain this to me.
>
>This is on FC4 using  vlc-0.8.5.
>
>Regards,
>Michel
>
>
>
>

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