Re: [Live-devel] media streaming and random access

2020-08-09 Thread Jim Ham
On 8/9/2020 4:07 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: Another thing you could try - as an experiment - is making your “.mkv” file video only (i.e., not containing any audio track), and try streaming/seeking within that instead. OK, this does work! At least on my system, try Interesting! Encoded wi

Re: [Live-devel] media streaming and random access

2020-08-09 Thread Jim Ham
On 8/9/2020 4:07 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: Another thing you could try - as an experiment - is making your “.mkv” file video only (i.e., not containing any audio track), and try streaming/seeking within that instead. I suspect that seeking within a video-only file/stream might work better, and

Re: [Live-devel] media streaming and random access

2020-08-09 Thread Ross Finlayson
Another thing you could try - as an experiment - is making your “.mkv” file video only (i.e., not containing any audio track), and try streaming/seeking within that instead. I suspect that seeking within a video-only file/stream might work better, and that the problem (with the video+audio file

Re: [Live-devel] media streaming and random access

2020-08-09 Thread Ross Finlayson
> On Aug 10, 2020, at 6:17 AM, Jim Ham wrote: > > You can see what happens yourself: > If I play this file directly (not streamed), it works fine. Could you please put this file on a web server (not just a RTSP server), so I can download the file, and try to figure out why the server (with

[Live-devel] media streaming and random access

2020-08-09 Thread Jim Ham
I'm still having trouble getting a stream to play after moving the slider in VLC. If I play from the beginning and don't touch the slider, all works. I have a video queued now that I ripped from a DVD with ffmpeg using the following command (Linux): cat /mnt/dvd/VIDEO_TS/VTS_0*_*VOB | ffmpeg -