[streaming] Re: WMP and VLC streaming

[Simen Thoresen]

Simen Thoresen wrote:
> A little more information on this. I've managed to confirm that all 
> clients able to play the stream correctly are WMP10, and that at least 
> most of the ones not able to play it are /not/ WMP10. Also, I've 
> upgraded one of the WMP9 clients to WMP10, and that client was then able 
> to play the stream correctly.
>
> I'm still curious to know if the stream described in the HOWTO stream 
> been played on WMP9 machines, or if it WMP10-only.
> Anybody?
> 

I've now managed to build what I think is a working VLC-0.8.5 on my test 
system (x86_64 CentOS4), and have verified that the problems from the 
VLC-0.8.4 builds I had still mostly remain. In short;
-Transcoding and streaming my 'divx'-file to the WMP9 client produces 
only a single horizontal line of video. The same stream renders 
correctly on WMP10
-Transcoding and streaming my '.mpg'-file (mpeg1) to the WMP9 or WMP10 
clients works.
-Transcoding and streaming my '.mp4'-file (mpeg4) from VLC-0.8.4 will 
crash VLC 0.8.5(official Win32-build), WMP9 and WMP10 clients.
-Transcoding and streaming my '.mp4'-file (mpeg4) from VLC-0.8.5 works 
on all tested clients

All tests were performend with the same VLC settings - WMV2 was the 
codec chosen for video transcoding, but the issue single-horizontal-line 
-issue was originally seen with 'DIV3'.

I'll move this to the VLC group, as it seems that the problem is not in 
the streaming but in the transcoding, where the resulting stream is 
dependent on the format of the original file/stream.

Yours,
-S
-- 
Simen Thoresen, Wulfkit Support, Dolphin ICS

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