[vlc-devel] Green areas in the video when using vlc streaming

[Herman Schultz]

On 7/20/07, Lincoln Ramsay <ramsayl at bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
> On 21/07/2007, at 1:28 AM, Herman Schultz wrote:
> > On 7/20/07, Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman at planet.nl> wrote:
> >> Herman Schultz wrote:
> >> > I am using VLC streaming (as a boardcaster) to Darwin.
> >> >
> >> > But when I use a video client (e.g. quicktime/vlc) to watch that
> >> stream
> >> by
> >> > hitting Darwin, I see a lot of green rectangles in the video in the
> >> > beginning. (see attached screen shot).
> >> ...
> >> I suspect this is due to a missing key frame. The decoder just
> >> fills in
> >> the blank in that case. Which of course when missing the first
> >> keyframe
> >> can produce strange effects.
> > ...
> > Thanks for your help.  Can you please help me understand which VLC
> > missing key frame?
>
> I have seen this before. I think it is the server, specifically the
> "stream/transcode" process. I've seen videos that play fine in VLC
> but exhibit this "green rectangles" problem when transcoding.



Thanks for the pointers.  Do you know if there is anyway I can configure VLC
streaming to correct this "green rectangles" problem?

And do you know if Real player/Quicktime can display these ''green
rectangles" or it will simply choke the client?

Thank you.



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