[vlc-devel] Broken Amazon S3 Streaming

[Francois Cartegnie]

Hi,

Here's an Amazon's CDN reply for its hosted streams:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
  x-amz-id-2:
OAaIbl2xQtPYb19T/EbjE4+siG8DLLiSw+/JJ5uV1r6u0q+t/ffwxGPt21AtDn3O
  x-amz-request-id: 86A37EFDA3FE5D4A
  Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:48:01 GMT
  Cache-Control: public
  Expires: Sun, 08 Aug 2100 00:00:00 GMT
  Last-Modified: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 03:20:02 GMT
  ETag: "22bd79902b6b53aa5d301dfe0ae1f4e2"
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
  Content-Type:
  Content-Length: 1317245
  Server: AmazonS3
  Age: 93466
  X-Cache: Hit from cloudfront
  X-Amz-Cf-Id:
e99fI8jp1OBsnd_JSq17JkcvT6l2pgIDl8ecd-EydI_-dF9MFRc_Nw==,x4GaJlOMzYizeCH7NN2QuJJWrWM2vMQI5o01qPMsnkyHdF-LWQXs4w==
  Via: 1.0 e87f79edaf51ca569912b13429de71d2.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)
  Connection: keep-alive


VLC discards such MP4 stream, that's an old known problem.
http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1275

Which is also due to an old Amazon S3 bug.
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=162333

As mentioned they recently added the:
"  Accept-Ranges: bytes" (see above)
as a fix. Custome header then as this one is not part of the HTTP/1.0 spec.

Annoying, as S3 is a major CDN.
Can't change things to flag the input as seekable when "Accept-Range" is
replied ?
Or do we have a way to play not seekable mp4 files ?

More annoying: when it fails, vlc starts using content as an M3U playlist...

Francois