[Live-devel] strange behavior with Android 5.0 lollipop media player

[Ben Rush]

...sorry, I missed that you asked about audio exclusively as well. Yes, the
issue persists even when it's audio only.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:42 AM Ben Rush <ben at ben-rush.net> wrote:

> Ross,
>
> Thanks for your response. Here are your answers:
>
> 1) Any client that we've tested thus far continues to connect and stream
> without issue after the Android phone connects, or after any other client
> connects. This is strictly the ONLY client we've seen to have ANY problems
> like this.
>
> 2) Commenting out the Audio session did not resolve the issue. The phones
> continue to display the same behavior even when there's just a video
> stream.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:45 AM Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > Doesn't work:
>> >
>> > 1) Above server launches,
>> > 2) H264LiveServerMediaSession::createNew(*usageEnvironment, true)
>> > 3) Connect to the server using VLC or any of a dozen other players
>> we've tested,
>> > 4) Phone will connect to server,
>> > 5) Phone won't stream the content.
>>
>> Thanks for the report.  For more data points - what happens if (in step
>> 3) you connect to the server using your Android Phone, *and then* connect
>> to the server using some other media player (e.g., VLC).  Does the media
>> continue to play on your Android Phone, even after the second media player
>> (VLC) has connected?  (I presume that VLC will continue to play the media
>> in that case.)
>>
>> Also, what happens if you modify your server to stream *only* video, or
>> *only* audio?  (You can test this by adding - to your “ServerMediaSession”
>> - only one of your “ServerMediaSubsession”s, rather than adding both of
>> them.)
>>
>>
>> Ross Finlayson
>> Live Networks, Inc.
>> http://www.live555.com/
>>
>>
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