[Red5] VOD stops

Ben Weekes ben.weekes at requestec.com
Thu Mar 27 13:09:12 PST 2008


25-27th April - no firm details yet
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sean Newman 
  To: red5 at osflash.org 
  Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:35 PM
  Subject: Re: [Red5] VOD stops


  Hi Dan, 
   
     I'm having this problem on a standalone setup. These "inactivity error" - are they java exceptions?

  Sean

  > From: spam at electroteque.org
  > To: red5 at osflash.org
  > Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:34:17 +1100
  > Subject: Re: [Red5] VOD stops
  > 
  > Is this also happening for standalone setups ? I believe this may also 
  > be happening for normal standalone setups aswell as im getting a 
  > complaint about it but i can't see it myself. Do you get the 
  > inactivity errors which may be disconnecting you ?
  > 
  > On 28/03/2008, at 5:10 AM, Sales Department wrote:
  > 
  > > I updated to the latest trunk today and the VOD stopping is still
  > > there. I have managed to work around it i think, and I thought the
  > > work-around might shed some light on the problem if someone knows what
  > > to look for.
  > >
  > > I have an origin /edge cluster. When I play the VOD via an edge with
  > > rtmp, it plays for about the length of the buffer and then freezes -
  > > never to begin again (it's like it fills it's buffer once and then 
  > > never
  > > gets any more data).
  > >
  > > When I force it to use rtmpt through the origin server, the results 
  > > are
  > > much better and it seems to play well.
  > >
  > >
  > >
  > > Dominick Accattato wrote:
  > >> Strange.. this was a bug that we fixed a while back, sometime during
  > >> the development of 0.7. I'll try my old testcase to see if this has
  > >> reappeared.
  > >>
  > >>
  > >> On Mar 9, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Sean Newman wrote:
  > >>
  > >>> Hi Bill,
  > >>>
  > >>> I'm trying to solve this problem myself right now. I have the
  > >>> same problem with flvs recorded by Red5 as well as by videos that
  > >>> have been recorded on tape, captured and encoded to flv like you. 
  > >>> I'm
  > >>> at a loss as to what's causing this.
  > >>>
  > >>> Sean
  > >>>
  > >>>> Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 16:16:57 -0400
  > >>>> From: sales at interalab.com <mailto:sales at interalab.com>
  > >>>> To: red5 at osflash.org <mailto:red5 at osflash.org>
  > >>>> Subject: Re: [Red5] VOD stops
  > >>>>
  > >>>> More info:
  > >>>>
  > >>>> Video recorded on miniDV tape, captured and rendered as a raw
  > >>>> (uncompressed AVI).
  > >>>> Original size 720x480
  > >>>> Final AVI size approx 4 Gig, 320x240 resize, progressive scan, with
  > >>>> interleave
  > >>>>
  > >>>> AVI is then encoded to VP6 using Flash Encoder8 to a .flv file
  > >>>> Resulting size 320x240
  > >>>> 400k stream size
  > >>>>
  > >>>> Placed on edge/origin cluster and played though Flash 8 player 
  > >>>> movie.
  > >>>>
  > >>>> Tried it on a standalone dist as well with same results.
  > >>>>
  > >>>> Other video's recorded on other DV cams at another time (of 
  > >>>> similar or
  > >>>> larger size) work fine.
  > >>>>
  > >>>> Re-rendered the original video as a .mov instead of .avi and it
  > >>> improved
  > >>>> this problem dramatically.
  > >>>>
  > >>>> Anyone with any ideas what would cause this?
  > >>>>
  > >>>>
  > >>>>
  > >>>> Sales Department wrote:
  > >>>>> Anyone have any problems with a video on demand (.flv file)
  > >>> starting and
  > >>>>> then quiting as soon as the initial player buffer runs out? The
  > >>>>> red5.log doesn't report anything at all. The status on the player
  > >>> never
  > >>>>> says anything but buffer empty, no stop or error.
  > >>>>>
  > >>>>> Bill
  > >>>>>
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