[vlc] Re: last part of clips cut off when streaming?

Florent DAUSSIN Florent.Daussin at ccr.jussieu.fr
Fri Nov 4 18:03:16 CET 2005


A 10:00 22/09/2005 -0700, jmzorko at mac.com a écrit :

>Jean-Paul,
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>>>>Then the fade outs are not properly appended to the mpeg sequence I 
>>>>suspect.
>>>>Not so uncommon. A lot of mpeg editing software makes a real mess out 
>>>>of the mpeg.
>>>
>>>
>>>... possibly, but why then does VLC play back the video -- including the 
>>>fade-out -- fine when played locally i.e. not from a stream?
>>>These issues only appear when a VLC instance is playing a stream of a 
>>>video clip with a fade at the end; if VLC plays the same video clip 
>>>locally (not streamed from another VLC), then the fade-out plays fine.
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>>VLC probably inserts a TS discontiuity bit just before the fade and 
>>settopboxes usually don't bother to check the TS header fields properly.
>
>The Amino people say their STB handles discontinuities in the TS, though 
>they say that differing PIDs might confuse it.  I'm looking to see if 
>there is a way I can tell VLC to only stream certain PIDs.

I have the same problem with aminet 110
(I lauch a play lits of video from a mandriva machine, but the STB stops 
after the first mpg)

I found in vlc --longhelp --advanced some option to control the TS but I 
dont know how to do with this...

--sout-ts-pid-video <Entier>
--sout-ts-pid-audio <Entier>
--sout-ts-pid-spu <Entier>

...

Florent

>Regards,
>
>John
>
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>>Grtz,
>>Jean-Paul Saman.
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>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>John
>>>
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>>>>>On Sep 20, 2005, at 2:40 PM, jmzorko at mac.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Hello, all ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I'm sure this issue has been observed by others, so i'm hopeful that 
>>>>>>there is a solution.  I'm googling and looking through the archives 
>>>>>>now, but I want to parallelize by also asking in this forum.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>We're seeing VLC behavior (Windows and Mac OSX) where a VLC instance 
>>>>>>plays a local MPEG2 PS just fine, but when it streams it, the 
>>>>>>receiving VLC instance (as well as an Amino set-top box) never plays 
>>>>>>the end of the clip correctly.  These clips are encoded with perhaps 
>>>>>>a 3-4 second fade to black, and this fade never plays on the 
>>>>>>receiving unit -- the video just stops, and then the next one 
>>>>>>starts.  It's as if the VLC instance doing the streaming stops 
>>>>>>streaming when the EOF of the source MPEG2 PS is reached, even though 
>>>>>>there is stuff in the sout buffers waiting to go out.  I don't know 
>>>>>>if this is really the case ...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Has anyone been able to solve this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>John
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Falling You - exploring the beauty of voice and sound
>>>>>>http://www.fallingyou.com
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>>>>>
>>>>>Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>>John
>>>>>
>>>>>Falling You - exploring the beauty of voice and sound
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>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>John
>>>
>>>Falling You - exploring the beauty of voice and sound
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>Regards,
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>John
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>http://www.fallingyou.com
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