Bug#819266: ffmpeg: rtmp is broken

2016-03-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Ralf Jung (2016-03-26 13:43:16) > You do not agree that URLs that work on Windows, Mac, SuSE, and Arch, > should also work on Debian...? I believe this bugreport is the wrong place to discuss that topic. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843

Bug#819266: ffmpeg: rtmp is broken

2016-03-26 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > If you believe that all consumers of librtmp should by default work in > "live" mode then I suggest you file a bugreport against librtmp to > request patching it (or convince upstream to change) accordingly. > > If you believe that - no matter what librtmp does by default - ffmpeg > and

Bug#819266: ffmpeg: rtmp is broken

2016-03-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Ralf Jung (2016-03-26 13:07:43) > Hi, > > > If VLC fails to properly handle the odd URI+space+options ffmpeg syntax, > > then that is a bug in VLC. Please check if that is the case, or (now > > that you know what to look for) it perhaps is instead an issue of you > > needing to feed th

Bug#819266: ffmpeg: rtmp is broken

2016-03-26 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > If VLC fails to properly handle the odd URI+space+options ffmpeg syntax, > then that is a bug in VLC. Please check if that is the case, or (now > that you know what to look for) it perhaps is instead an issue of you > needing to feed the "live" option in a different way than you have tri

Bug#819266: ffmpeg: rtmp is broken

2016-03-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Ralf Jung (2016-03-26 12:13:15) > [...] considering that librtmp upstream seems rather dead (last > release was in 2012). Just for the record (unrelated to both this closed issue and a potential UI issue for VLC): librtmp may not release very frequently, but has made commits to its sour

Bug#819266: ffmpeg: rtmp is broken

2016-03-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Ralf Jung (2016-03-26 12:13:15) > >> However, the RTMP stream that I am testing this on is the live stream of > >> an event that will end Monday at noon ;-) > > > > This fails similar to your experience: > > > > rtmpdump -r rtmp://revision.scenesat.com/live/mainhall > > > > This works:

Bug#819266: ffmpeg: rtmp is broken

2016-03-26 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > ffmpeg contains a fork of librtmp which seems to be used if not linking > against the system shared copy. Debian favors shared code. Comparing ffmpeg and librtmp sources, this does not look like a fork at all, but rather like two independent codebases. I grepped for identifiers, and found

Bug#819266: ffmpeg: rtmp is broken

2016-03-26 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > This does not work here with the Debian packages: I got rid of the "configuration mismatch" by replacing libavcodec-extra with plain libavcodec. This still fails: > $ ffmpeg -i rtmp://revision.scenesat.com/live/mainhall -qscale 2 out.avi > ffmpeg version 2.8.6-1+b2 Copyright (c) 2000-2016

Bug#819266: ffmpeg: rtmp is broken

2016-03-26 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, Please keep me in Cc in the mails, bugs.d.o doesn't otherwise seem to deliver them to me. > Sorry to say but this does not seem like a useful bug report: Did you test > at all with FFmpeg? As a library, yes -- as I said, mpv and vlc. The error message was even prefixed with [ffmpeg]. I'd sa

Bug#819266: ffmpeg: rtmp is broken

2016-03-26 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, >> So I don't think this is fixed because of any changes librtmp could >> make. It rather seems to be fixed by entirely avoiding librtmp. > > Interesting. > > ffmpeg contains a fork of librtmp which seems to be used if not linking > against the system shared copy. Debian favors shared code

Bug#819266: ffmpeg: rtmp is broken

2016-03-26 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Ralf Jung (2016-03-26 09:26:05) > Hi, > > > Quoting Ralf Jung (2016-03-25 19:19:35) > >> something about rtmp is broken in ffmpeg as shipped in Debian. > >> For example, the Revision RTMP streams > >> do not work in either MPV or VLC. > >> However, a

Bug#819266: ffmpeg: rtmp is broken

2016-03-26 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > Quoting Ralf Jung (2016-03-25 19:19:35) >> something about rtmp is broken in ffmpeg as shipped in Debian. >> For example, the Revision RTMP streams >> do not work in either MPV or VLC. >> However, after building mpv and ffmpeg using mpv-build >>

Bug#819266: ffmpeg: rtmp is broken

2016-03-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Ralf Jung (2016-03-25 19:19:35) > something about rtmp is broken in ffmpeg as shipped in Debian. > For example, the Revision RTMP streams > do not work in either MPV or VLC. > However, after building mpv and ffmpeg using mpv-build >

Bug#819266: ffmpeg: rtmp is broken

2016-03-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Carl Eugen Hoyos (2016-03-25 21:37:58) > On Friday 25 March 2016 07:19:35 pm you wrote: > > Package: ffmpeg > > Version: 7:2.8.6-1+b2 > > Severity: normal > > > something about rtmp is broken in ffmpeg as shipped in Debian. > > For example, the Revision RTMP streams > >

Bug#819266: ffmpeg: rtmp is broken

2016-03-25 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
On Friday 25 March 2016 07:19:35 pm you wrote: > Package: ffmpeg > Version: 7:2.8.6-1+b2 > Severity: normal > something about rtmp is broken in ffmpeg as shipped in Debian. > For example, the Revision RTMP streams > do not work in either MPV or VLC. > However

Bug#819266: ffmpeg: rtmp is broken

2016-03-25 Thread Ralf Jung
Package: ffmpeg Version: 7:2.8.6-1+b2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, something about rtmp is broken in ffmpeg as shipped in Debian. For example, the Revision RTMP streams do not work in either MPV or VLC. However, after building mpv and ffmpeg using mpv-