<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;" mce_style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, geneva; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">The output ( x4, x15, x60 and x300 ) of the MPEG4 HD file plays out ok in VLC.</span></div></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div>By this I presume you meant that you used the "testMPEG2TransportStreamTrickPlay" utility to generate Transport Stream files (corresponding to various fast-forward speeds of the original), and played these files locally using VLC.</div><div><br></div><div>The Transport Stream data in these files are exactly the same as the data that the "LIVE555 Media Server" streams when asked to 'fast-forward' at the same speed. Therefore, the problem must be in either your STB clients, or the network.</div><div><br></div><div>I suspect that at least part of the problem is that the 'faster' streams are being sent at a higher bitrate (because they consist only of large 'key frames'). Network congestion and/or packet loss may be the cause of some of the problems that you're seeing with your network clients.</div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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