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

[Jean-Paul Saman]

jmzorko at mac.com wrote:

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> Derek,
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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.
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> ... 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.


VLC probably inserts a TS discontiuity bit just before the fade and 
settopboxes usually don't bother to check the TS header fields properly.

Grtz,
Jean-Paul Saman.

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> Regards,
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> John
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>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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
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