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

[jmzorko at mac.com]

Jean-Paul,

>>> 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.
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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.

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:
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>>>>>
>>>>> 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
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>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> John
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>> John
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Regards,

John

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