[Live-devel] Problems "seeking" in MPEG2 TS?

[Glen Gray]

This feature works fine for me.

Both specifying a start time and seeking to a specific place once the  
stream is playing.
--
Glen Gray
slaine at slaine.org




On 24 Jan 2008, at 06:54, Glen Gray wrote:

> I'll try and test this scenario later too. Not sure I've tested  
> seeking.
> --
> Glen Gray
> slaine at slaine.org
>
>
>
>
> On 23 Jan 2008, at 22:12, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>
>>> I'm using the live555MediaServer application to stream an mpeg2 ts
>>> to a
>>> VLC client on linux.  I used the MPEG2TransportStreamIndexer app to
>>> create a .tsx file to go along with the .ts file.
>>>
>>> Playing the stream at a normal scale of 1.0 works just fine, as does
>>> playing it in fast forward or fast reverse, using other settings in
>>> the
>>> scale header.
>>>
>>> The problem comes when I attempt to "seek" in the stream to a
>>> specific
>>> time, or attempt to use the --start-time option to VLC to start at a
>>> point other than the beginning.
>>
>> Instead of usng VLC, could you try running "openRTSP"
>> <http://www.live555.com/openRTSP/> with the "-s 15" option.  Let us
>> know if that generates a correct output Transport Stream file (i.e.,
>> properly starting at the 15s mark).
>>
>>
>>> The VLC implementation of the
>>> start-time option results in a PLAY request being sent with "Range:
>>> npt=0.000-" followed almost immediately by a second PLAY request  
>>> with
>>> "Range: npt=<new-time>-".
>>
>> This seems like a bug in VLC.  What version of VLC are you using?
>> (Although we do not support VLC on this mailing list, I will forward
>> this information to the VLC developers.)
>> -- 
>>
>> Ross Finlayson
>> Live Networks, Inc.
>> http://www.live555.com/
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