[Live-devel] VLC stops working due to live555 breakdown after 2147 seconds

[Szoke]

Hi everyone,

I have started a discussion on the VLC forum, which explains the problem 
I have with Live555:
http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=90813

In short:
1.
I am catching a rtsp stream from an IP camera attached to a kestrel 
nest. For those who are interested in birds, just for fun, have a look here:
http://www.justin.tv/szokeszaniszlo/videos?frh=1306760409
this system is also in two embedded systems used in the woods, catching 
amazing images from black storks :
http://www.solon.be/3-combat-violent-entre-la-cigogne-et-la-martre-violent-struggle-between-black-stork-and-pine-marten/

2.
Unfortunately, VLC stops working after about 35 minutes. Debugging VLC 
showed that the stream is broken by live555 after exactly 2147 seconds, 
or 2^31, which sounds like a 32 bit signed integer being used to store 
micro seconds...
All details are given on the VLC forum at the URL given above.

3.
In embedded systems using linutop computers (running Ubuntu), VLC stops 
reading the stream for the same reason. Using different picture 
resolution doesn't help. We could bypass the problem by restarting VLC 
every 15 minutes. But under Windows, I cannot restart VLC as the Dyyno 
Universal Broadcaster sending the images live to justin.tv looses the 
source image in that case.

4.
I'm doing my best to have all these systems up and running full time, as 
even one national television broadcast (TV5) is following these videos.

So any help will be greatly appreciated !

Thanks a lot in advance,

Stan