[Red5] live webcam test

Sebastian Wagner seba.wagner at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 13:00:37 EDT 2007


*Plays a few frames, sticks for 3 seconds, plays a few frames sticks for
3 seconds etc etc*

=> same for me but it stops just for 1 second then plays 2 seconds.


sebastian

2007/4/25, Dan Rossi <spam at electroteque.org>:
>
> Plays a few frames, sticks for 3 seconds, plays a few frames sticks for
> 3 seconds etc etc, exactly what we are experiencing broadcasting to a
> server in NY from australia.  Had audio then stopped, vid quality seems
> 100% here. We have the video issue described the audio plays fine.
>
>
> Al Melquist wrote:
> > Confirm same
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Red5-bounces at osflash.org [mailto:Red5-bounces at osflash.org] On
> > Behalf Of Nathan P. Johansen
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:22 AM
> > To: Red5 at osflash.org
> > Subject: Re: [Red5] live webcam test
> >
> > Watched (and still watching) for about five minutes.  There's a lot of
> > pinkish reflection off the window, but it works well enough - sometimes
> > really smooth for a few seconds, then jerky for several frames before it
> > evens out, kind of cycling between these states.  And the audio also
> > works, although there's not much to listen to.  I can hear the sound of
> > the car tires on the wet pavement.  :)
> >
> > I'll leave it on for another 10 mins or so from here in Colorado where
> > it's stopped snowing and there is sunshine for a while ...
> >
> > -Nathan
> >
> > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Interalab wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Everyone plus those of you on the 'Re: [Red5] Live webcam freezes
> >>
> > after
> >
> >> 4 seconds.' thread:
> >>
> >> I've just put a new server together using trunk version  red5-0.6-1925
> >>
> >
> >
> >> and have a live webcam streaming on it.  Here's the link:
> >>
> >> http://www.magicoast.com/media_center/embedded_player.html
> >>
> >> Here are the specs:
> >>
> >> Xubuntu Linux 7.04
> >> Standalone Red 5 (jetty) with min ram 256M and max ram 512M set on
> >>
> > java
> >
> >> command line in red5.sh
> >> AMD Athlon 64 3500+
> >> 1 GIG Ram
> >> Internet is at least a T-1 and can burst up to 10 or 20 Mbps
> >> Webcam pointed out our window in Ann Arbor, MI - yes, it's raining.
> >> 320x240
> >> 16 fps
> >> 80% video quality
> >> 11 k audio quality - (should just be room noise)
> >> upstream bandwidth is around 300kbps
> >>
> >> Server reports 460M RAM in use, 502M RAM free, CPU at less than 1%
> >>
> >> I'm not seeing the video freeze at 4 seconds.  It's a little choppy at
> >>
> >
> >
> >> times, but I'd like to know how it compares with your tests/problems
> >> you've been reporting.  Also, overall quality report would be good
> >>
> > too.
> >
> >> I'll watch the stats and see how many connections we get.  Please view
> >>
> >
> >
> >> it for a while and let me know . . .
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> Sebastian Wagner wrote:
> >>
> >>> i'll checked it out with a higher framerate and latest trunk... it
> >>>
> > is
> >
> >>> getting a better with 30fps but then you have some kind of
> >>> *slideshow-effect* even in live-broadcasted-streams.
> >>> I also do get a lot of *BW-Low-NetStream-Notification* and i am
> >>> testing in local network without firewalls ..., my cam resolution is
> >>>
> >
> >
> >>> 120x80
> >>> If you change to 20fps its just freezing completly, you can restart
> >>>
> > by
> >
> >>> reentering the app and subscribing to a stream and ... same result.
> >>>
> >>> sebastian
> >>>
> >>> 2007/4/25, Dan Rossi < spam at electroteque.org
> >>> <mailto:spam at electroteque.org>>:
> >>>
> >>>     Yep this has been a problem for quite a while, messing around
> >>>
> > with
> >
> >>>     the
> >>>     video quality especially helped a little bit. But from my tests
> >>>     ive sent
> >>>     before even a 100 pixel window was doing it. Try 80% video
> >>>
> > quality and
> >
> >>>     set the fps to 30. Trust me the higher the rate out helped with
> >>>
> > the
> >
> >>>     higher playback. Does it freeze and just do nothing or starts to
> >>>
> > play
> >
> >>>     like a jpg slideshow ? Id check the fps on playback if its 1fps
> >>>     there is
> >>>     the problem for the slideshow effect. Yeh any audio setting
> >>>
> > plays
> >
> >>>     back
> >>>     fine, and its definately not bandwidth out and in issues or else
> >>>
> > there
> >
> >>>     would be rebuffering etc.
> >>>
> >>>     Sebastian Wagner wrote:
> >>>     > no disconnection. The connection is still alive, i can also
> >>>     still hear
> >>>     > audio. Only the video does freeze. I tried several
> >>>
> > fps-settings
> >
> >>>     with
> >>>     > the cam. It was no difference. It just freezes after some
> >>>
> > seconds
> >
> >>>     > (from my feeling it is 4 seconds).
> >>>     >
> >>>     > regards
> >>>     > sebastian
> >>>     >
> >>>     >
> >>>     > 2007/4/25, Dan Rossi < spam at electroteque.org
> >>>     <mailto:spam at electroteque.org>
> >>>     > <mailto:spam at electroteque.org
> >>>
> > <mailto:spam at electroteque.org>>>:
> >
> >>>     >
> >>>     >     Im not sure about complete freezing, maybe thats what we
> >>>
> > got but
> >
> >>>     >     it was
> >>>     >     a disconnection at 22mins, do you mean constant freezing ?
> >>>
> > I
> >
> >>>     think
> >>>     >     after
> >>>     >     an update last friday Ive been alerted that the framerate
> >>>     problem
> >>>     >     with
> >>>     >     live streams have come back again. We've set the frame
> >>>
> > rate
> >
> >>>     on the
> >>>     >     broadcaster app to 15fps and i think its only playing back
> >>>     as 1fps
> >>>     >     with
> >>>     >     a video size of 192x144. From what ive tested with FMS if
> >>>
> > we set
> >
> >>>     >     the fps
> >>>     >     to 30 the playback is about 15.
> >>>     >
> >>>     >     Klaus wrote:
> >>>     >     > Now I'm running revision 1929 from svn
> >>>     >     >
> >>>     >     > I saw there was an update on
> >>>     >     > ./src/org/red5/server/stream/ServerStream.java, so I was
> >>>     hoping ;-)
> >>>     >     >
> >>>     >     > But still same problem.
> >>>     >     >
> >>>     >     > I'm using java 1.5
> >>>     >     >
> >>>     >     >
> >>>     >     >
> >>>     >     > Klaus wrote:
> >>>     >     >
> >>>     >     >> I just upgraded from 0.6rc1 to the newest released
> >>>
> > red5-0.6
> >
> >>>     >     >>
> >>>     >     >> After this I'm expirence problems.
> >>>     >     >>
> >>>     >     >> I have 2 video's .. One with webcam and and one where I
> >>>     watch
> >>>     >     my webcam
> >>>     >     >>
> >>>     >     >> The video where I watch my webcam freezes after 4
> >>>
> > seconds.
> >
> >>>     >     >>
> >>>     >     >> If i record my webcam, say 10 seconds and play it
> >>>
> > later,
> >
> >>>     I see
> >>>     >     all 10
> >>>     >     >> seconds. But when I watch it live, it freezes after 4
> >>>     seconds.
> >>>     >     >>
> >>>     >     >> The log doesn't say anything, just one of these
> >>>
> > everytime I
> >
> >>>     >     publish,
> >>>     >     >> which is okay.
> >>>     >     >>
> >>>     >     >> [java] [INFO] 470213 pool-2-thread-7:(
> >>>     >     >> org.red5.server.stream.VideoCodecFactory.getVideoCodec
> >>>
> > )
> >
> >>>     Trying
> >>>     >     codec
> >>>     >     >> org.red5.server.stream.codec.ScreenVideo at 1c4a198
> >>>     >     >>
> >>>     >     >> A trace on the netstream doesn't say anything useful
> >>>
> > either :
> >
> >>>     >     >>
> >>>     >     >> Level: status Code: NetStream.Publish.Start
> >>>     >     >> Level: status Code: NetStream.Record.Start
> >>>     >     >> Level: status Code: NetStream.Record.Stop
> >>>     >     >> Level: status Code: NetStream.Unpublish.Success
> >>>     >     >>
> >>>     >     >> Any clues?
> >>>     >     >>
> >>>     >     >> /Klaus
> >>>     >     >>
> >>>     >     >>
> >>>     >     >>
> >>>     >     >>
> >>>     >     >>
> >>>     >     >>
> >>>     >     >>
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