[Live-devel] Regarding 'Pause' in Live555

[Ross Finlayson]

>Hi Ross,
>
>I tries PAUSE feature of Live555.
>
>First I streamed a wav file. In between, I paused the stream , it 
>stopped successfully but when I played it , it was not playable 
>properly, in VLC. It plays a word then stops for a 2-3 sec , then 
>plays a word then again stops and so on... ( same problem when used 
>RealPlayer but occured after 4-5 times pausing , it went into 
>endless buffering deadlock)
>
>Next I tried to stream Audio+Video Prograam Stream ( .mpg file) , 
>when I paused the stream using VLC , it got paused successfully , 
>and when I played it , it continued without any problem . But second 
>time when I paused and played it , it shows only video and no vioce 
>there after (in successive pause and play).
>
>I also looked into the code little bit and saw it was working 
>corrrectly as expected ( Pause + Play = Stop + Seek + Play).
>
>Can you tell me where I am wrong.

I believe that this is a problem with VLC.  As far as I can tell, our 
RTSP server handles RTSP "PAUSE" correctly (and WAV audio files are a 
good medium to test this with, because of their simplicity).
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/