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

Derk-Jan Hartman hartman at videolan.org
Wed Sep 21 01:08:15 CEST 2005


On 21 sep 2005, at 00:58, jmzorko at mac.com wrote:
> Hello all, again ...
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> Another data point -- if I specify "--sout-keep" on the command  
> line, the video clips stream and are played fully by the remote VLC  
> instances (i.e. fade-outs play), but the Amino set-top box gets all  
> confused.  Hmm ...
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> Regards,
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> John

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.

DJ


> On Sep 20, 2005, at 2:40 PM, jmzorko at mac.com wrote:
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>> Hello, all ...
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>> 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.
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>> 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 ...
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>> Has anyone been able to solve this?
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>> Regards,
>>
>> John
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