[vlc] http streaming problem with big files (over 1GB)

[Fabien]

Hello,

I have a JVC everio camcorder which produces MPEG2 files (in .mod
format). I convert the videos with ffmpeg, eg :

1) test1
ffmpeg -i talk_martin_lange_2008-10-09.mod  -b 1800k -s 640x512  -ab
128000 -acodec mp3   talk_martin_lange_2008-10-09_mid.avi

This produces a 1057503590 bytes file :
<http://tresor.epfl.ch/videos_vlc/talk_martin_lange_2008-10-09_mid.avi>


2) test 2

ffmpeg -i talk_martin_lange_2008-10-09.mod  -b 1800k -s 660x528  -ab
128000 -acodec mp3   talk_martin_lange_2008-10-09_mid2.avi

This produces a 1139005998 bytes file :
<http://tresor.epfl.ch/videos_vlc/talk_martin_lange_2008-10-09_mid2.avi>

If I try to play them in streaming with vlc, it works perfectly with the
1st one, but not with the second one, where I get "HTTP/1.1 416
Requested Range Not Satisfiable".

I got the same problem under linux (v0.8.4) and windows (v0.9.4).

It seems vlc tries to access beyond the end of file :

access_http access debug: stream size=1139005998
access_http access debug: trying to seek to 1073741928
[00000278] main access debug: net: connecting to tresor.epfl.ch port 80
[00000278] main access debug: connection in progress
[00000278] access_http access debug: protocol 'HTTP' answer code 206
access_http access debug: stream size=1139005998
[00000278] access_http access debug: trying to seek to 1139006010
[00000278] main access debug: net: connecting to tresor.epfl.ch port 80
[00000278] main access debug: connection in progress
[00000278] access_http access debug: protocol 'HTTP' answer code 416
[00000278] access_http access error: error: HTTP/1.1 416 Requested Range
Not Satisfiable
[00000278] access_http access error: seek failed

Any idea ?

Note that mplayer can read both files in streaming without problem.

Thanks for your help.

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Fabien