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#17 Timeout when starting stream playback

closed-fixed
nobody
None
5
2008-10-04
2008-08-09
No

For some streams xineliboutput only plays a few seconds and then the playback stops.

I could fix / work around this problem by increasing PLAYFILE_TIMEOUT from 5000 ms to 10000 ms.

Maybe it would be a good idea to increase this value by default or make it configurable. According to the syslog, at least 7 seconds are required.

Here are the relevant syslog messages from the VDR plugin:

With 5000 ms:

21:37:27 vdr vdr: [2641] [xine..put] Service(MediaPlayer-1.0, mms://c36000-o.w.core.cdn.streamfarm.net/36000zdf/ondemand/3546zdf/zdf/zdf/08/12/081229_halbach_h19_vh.wmv)
21:37:27 vdr vdr: [2922] [xine..put] ID3Scanner Started
21:37:27 vdr vdr: [2922] [xine..put] ID3Scanner Done.
21:37:27 vdr vdr: [2641] [xine..put] cPlaylist::EscapeMrl('mms://c36000-o.w.core.cdn.streamfarm.net/36000zdf/ondemand/3546zdf/zdf/zdf/08/12/081229_halbach_h19_vh.wmv')
21:37:27 vdr vdr: [2641] [xine..put] --> 'mms://c36000-o.w.core.cdn.streamfarm.net/36000zdf/ondemand/3546zdf/zdf/zdf/08/12/081229_halbach_h19_vh.wmv'
21:37:27 vdr vdr: [2754] [xine..put] DVDTITLE DVDTITLE 0
21:37:28 vdr vdr: [2754] [xine..put] DVDTITLE DVDTITLE 0
21:37:32 vdr vdr: [2641] [xine..put] cXinelibServer::PlayFileCtrl: Timeout (PLAYFILE 0 goom:fps:25,width:720,height:576 mms://c36000-o.w.core.cdn.streamfarm.net/36000zdf/ondemand/3546zdf/zdf/zdf/08/12/081229_halbach_h19_vh.wmv , 5000 ms) 2
21:37:32 vdr vdr: [2641] [xine..put] cXinelibPlayer playing mms://c36000-o.w.core.cdn.streamfarm.net/36000zdf/ondemand/3546zdf/zdf/zdf/08/12/081229_halbach_h19_vh.wmv (FAIL)
21:37:39 vdr vdr: [2641] [xine..put] cXinelibPlayerControl: EndOfStreamReached
21:37:39 vdr vdr: [2641] [xine..put] cXinelibPlayerControl: Replaying = 0
21:37:40 vdr vdr: [2923] [xine..put] Detected video size 544x576
21:37:51 vdr vdr: [2754] [xine..put] Closing connection 0
21:37:51 vdr vdr: [2641] [xine..put] Restoring original primary device 2

With 10000 ms:

21:58:49 vdr vdr: [3754] [xine..put] Service(MediaPlayer-1.0, mms://c36000-o.w.core.cdn.streamfarm.net/36000zdf/ondemand/3546zdf/zdf/zdf/08/12/081229_halbach_h19_vh.wmv)
21:58:49 vdr vdr: [3787] [xine..put] ID3Scanner Started
21:58:49 vdr vdr: [3787] [xine..put] ID3Scanner Done.
21:58:49 vdr vdr: [3754] [xine..put] cPlaylist::EscapeMrl('mms://c36000-o.w.core.cdn.streamfarm.net/36000zdf/ondemand/3546zdf/zdf/zdf/08/12/081229_halbach_h19_vh.wmv')
21:58:49 vdr vdr: [3754] [xine..put] --> 'mms://c36000-o.w.core.cdn.streamfarm.net/36000zdf/ondemand/3546zdf/zdf/zdf/08/12/081229_halbach_h19_vh.wmv'
21:58:50 vdr vdr: [3771] [xine..put] DVDTITLE DVDTITLE 0
21:58:50 vdr vdr: [3771] [xine..put] DVDTITLE DVDTITLE 0
21:58:56 vdr vdr: [3754] [xine..put] cXinelibPlayer playing mms://c36000-o.w.core.cdn.streamfarm.net/36000zdf/ondemand/3546zdf/zdf/zdf/08/12/081229_halbach_h19_vh.wmv (OK)
21:59:32 vdr vdr: [3771] [xine..put] Closing connection 0
21:59:33 vdr vdr: [3754] [xine..put] cXinelibPlayerControl: EndOfStreamReached
21:59:33 vdr vdr: [3754] [xine..put] cXinelibPlayerControl: Replaying = 1
21:59:33 vdr vdr: [3754] [xine..put] Restoring original primary device 2

Discussion

  • Petri Hintukainen

    • status: open --> closed-fixed
     
  • Petri Hintukainen

    Fixed in 1.0.2.

     

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