[vlc] Can't get vlc to stream onmy Intranet

[Bennett Robinson]

Hello,
I hope someone can help me with this problem?

I have been trying to stream a video clip (unicast) from the hard drive 
of one computer (guest2) on my LAN to another computer (lab). The 
network is 10/100 Mbps and the two computers are RedHat Linux boxes. I 
can't seem to get the streaming to work correctly. As soon as I start 
the streaming at the server, the video window open on the client side, 
but with no picture and some very choppy sound. Eventually a series of 
frames start scrolling by with very little sound, but the scrolling 
pictures soon stop.

I started vlc on the lab computer (receiving compute with "vlc -vvv 
udp:192.168.17.12 --ttl 12" or sometimes I used vlc -V sdl 
udp:192.168.17.12. --ttl 12

On the server, I start the program with "vls -vv -d udp:192.168.17.13 
file:xxx.ts --ttl 12" or sometimes I use "vlc -vvv  file_name.ts --sout 
udp192.168.17.13 --ttl 12"

The LAN has nine computer on it at any one time and consist of two 
networks: 192.168.17.0 and 192.68.16.0.

Technical stuff
Both computers are running Linux RedHat 9.0. The CPU is an AMD XP 2800+ 
(~ 2.0GHz) and the with 256 MB of DDR RAM.  I upgraded the XFress86 
window system to 4.4.0. The vlc is version 0.7.2. installed from RPM 
binaries. The vlc software on the computer doing the streaming was 
compiled from the source while the vlc software, on computer receiving 
stream, was obtained from RPM binaries. The Linux kernel is 2.4.20-8

I tested both computer with the vlc software to make sure they were 
working as stand alone units - Both work beautifully, which I think 
indicates that the computers are up to the challenge?

SOME OUTPUT FROM THE SERVER AND THE CLIENT

server output (guest2)
[root at guest2 root]# vls -vv -d udp:192.168.17.13 
file:/home/bennettr/mpeg/grapes.ts --ttl 12
VideoLAN Server v 0.5.6 (Jul 14 2004)
- (c)1999-2003 VideoLAN2004-07-22 18:12:15
[INFO/Vls]  Module "channel:file"
registered2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls]  Module "channel:network" 
registered
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls]  Module "mpegreader:file" registered
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls]  Module "mpegconverter:ts2ts" registered
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls]  Module "mpegconverter:ps2ts" registered
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls]  Module "input:local" registered
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls]  Module "input:video" registered
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls]  Browsing modules in directory "."
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls]  Browsing modules in directory 
"/usr/local/lib/videolan/vls"
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls]  Module "mpegreader:dvd" registered
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls]  Channel 'output1' created
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls]  Starting input 'input1'
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/input1]  Added program 'program1'
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls]  Input 'input1' sucessfully initialised
2004-07-22 18:12:15 [INFO/Vls]  Executing command1 : 'start program1 
output1 input1 '

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client output (lab)
[root at lab root]# vlc -V sdl udp:192.168.17.12
VLC media player 0.7.2 Bond

[00000214] main input: playlist item `udp:192.168.17.12' libdvbpsi error 
(PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 9, expected 0)libdvbpsi error 
(PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 9, expected 0)
[00000217] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:6 samplerate:48000 bitrate:384000
[00000222] freetype video output error: failed to load font file  
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf [00000214] main 
input: EOF reached
[00000214] access_udp input: closing UDP target`udp:192.168.17.12'
[00000224] main input: playlist item `udp://192.168.17.12'libdvbpsi 
error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received
2, expected 0)libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 
2, expected 0)
[00000228] freetype video output error: failed to load font file 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf
[00000227] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:6 samplerate:48000 bitrate:384000
[00000235] freetype video output error: failed to load font file 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf
[00000234] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:4 samplerate:48000 bitrate:384000
[00000224] access_udp input: closing UDP target `udp://192.168.17.12'
[00000240] main input: playlist item `udp://192.168.17.12:1234'
[00000240] access_udp input: closing UDP target`udp://192.168.17.12:1234'
[00000241] main input: playlist item `udp://192.168.17.12'
[00000245] freetype video output error: failed to load font file 
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf
[00000244] a52 decoder:A/52 channels:4 samplerate:48000 bitrate:384000
[00000241] access_udp input:closing UDP target `udp://192.168.17.12'
[00000250] main input: playlist item `udp://192.168.17.12'libdvbpsi 
error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 6, expected 0)libdvbpsi 
error (PSIdecoder): TS discontinuity (received 6, expected 0)
[00000253] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:4 samplerate:48000 bitrate:384000
[00000257] freetype video output error: failed to load font 
file/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf
[00000250] main input: EOF reached
[00000250] access_udp input: closing UDP target `udp://192.168.17.12'
[00000259] main input: playlist item `udp://192.168.17.12'libdvbpsi 
error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 2, expected 0)libdvbpsi 
error (PSIdecoder): TS discontinuity (received 2, expected 0)
[00000262] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:4 samplerate:48000 bitrate:384000
[00000259] access_udp input: closing UDP target `udp://192.168.17.12'

***

[root at lab root]# vlc -V sdl udp:192.168.17.12
VLC media
player 0.7.2 Bond[00000214] main input: playlist item
`udp:192.168.17.12'libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity 
(received 12,
expected 0)libdvbpsi error (PSI decoder): TS discontinuity (received 12,
expected 0)
[00000217] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:4 samplerate:48000 bitrate:384000
[00000222] freetype video output error: failed to load font file
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf8

Bennett Robinson
OS/CM-ltd. (Thailand)

Tel:  662 661-6015
Fax   662 661-6462

e-mail: bennettr at oscm-ltd.com

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