[FFmpeg-user] Getting multi rate HLS to play

[Andrew Sinclair]

Hi All,

I am having issues getting ffplay to a multi bitrate AppleHTTP/HLS stream,
the stream opens but it never plays yet the individual variant streams play
fine.

Any ideas on how to get a multirate HLS file to play?

./ffplay http://iphonestreaming.abc.net.au/news24/news24.m3u8 -loglevel
debug
ffplay version N-53359-gc54a156 Copyright (c) 2003-2013 the FFmpeg
developers
  built on May 23 2013 14:25:14 with llvm-gcc 4.2.1 (LLVM build 2336.11.00)
  configuration: --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac --enable-nonfree
--enable-gpl
  libavutil      52. 33.100 / 52. 33.100
  libavcodec     55. 10.101 / 55. 10.101
  libavformat    55.  7.100 / 55.  7.100
  libavdevice    55.  1.101 / 55.  1.101
  libavfilter     3. 69.100 /  3. 69.100
  libswscale      2.  3.100 /  2.  3.100
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
  libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100
[hls,applehttp @ 0x7ff79b80f200] Format hls,applehttp probed with size=2048
and score=100
[AVIOContext @ 0x7ff799420c40] Statistics: 1152 bytes read, 0 seeks
[AVIOContext @ 0x7ff79a21aaa0] Statistics: 1130 bytes read, 0 seeks
[AVIOContext @ 0x7ff79a33d280] Statistics: 1152 bytes read, 0 seeks
[AVIOContext @ 0x7ff79a341720] Statistics: 1130 bytes read, 0 seeks
[AVIOContext @ 0x7ff799420c40] Statistics: 1218 bytes read, 0 seeks
Format mpegts probed with size=2048 and score=100 sq=    0B f=0/0
[mpegts @ 0x7ff79b004600] stream=0 stream_type=1b pid=1e1 prog_reg_desc=
[mpegts @ 0x7ff79b004600] stream=1 stream_type=f pid=1e2 prog_reg_desc=
[mpegts @ 0x7ff79b004600] File position before avformat_find_stream_info()
is 0
[h264 @ 0x7ff799817600] Current profile doesn't provide more RBSP data in
PPS, skipping
[mpegts @ 0x7ff79b004600] All info foundq=    0KB sq=    0B f=0/0
[mpegts @ 0x7ff79b004600] File position after avformat_find_stream_info()
is 34028
Format mpegts probed with size=2048 and score=100 sq=    0B f=0/0
[mpegts @ 0x7ff799863000] stream=0 stream_type=1b pid=1e1 prog_reg_desc=
[mpegts @ 0x7ff799863000] stream=1 stream_type=f pid=1e2 prog_reg_desc=
[mpegts @ 0x7ff799863000] File position before avformat_find_stream_info()
is 0
[h264 @ 0x7ff79a816200] Current profile doesn't provide more RBSP data in
PPS, skipping
[mpegts @ 0x7ff799863000] All info foundq=    0KB sq=    0B f=0/0
[mpegts @ 0x7ff799863000] File position after avformat_find_stream_info()
is 47188
Format mpegts probed with size=2048 and score=100 sq=    0B f=0/0
[mpegts @ 0x7ff799866e00] stream=0 stream_type=1b pid=1e1 prog_reg_desc=
[mpegts @ 0x7ff799866e00] stream=1 stream_type=f pid=1e2 prog_reg_desc=
[mpegts @ 0x7ff799866e00] File position before avformat_find_stream_info()
is 0
[h264 @ 0x7ff799869400] Current profile doesn't provide more RBSP data in
PPS, skipping
[mpegts @ 0x7ff799866e00] All info foundq=    0KB sq=    0B f=0/0
[mpegts @ 0x7ff799866e00] File position after avformat_find_stream_info()
is 68432
Format mpegts probed with size=2048 and score=100 sq=    0B f=0/0
[mpegts @ 0x7ff7998c0c00] stream=0 stream_type=1b pid=1e1 prog_reg_desc=
[mpegts @ 0x7ff7998c0c00] stream=1 stream_type=f pid=1e2 prog_reg_desc=
[mpegts @ 0x7ff7998c0c00] File position before avformat_find_stream_info()
is 0
[h264 @ 0x7ff7998c1200] Current profile doesn't provide more RBSP data in
PPS, skipping
[mpegts @ 0x7ff7998c0c00] All info foundq=    0KB sq=    0B f=0/0
[mpegts @ 0x7ff7998c0c00] File position after avformat_find_stream_info()
is 87232
[AVIOContext @ 0x7ff79942fdc0] Statistics: 1218 bytes read, 0 seeks
[AVIOContext @ 0x7ff79a220060] Statistics: 1218 bytes read, 0 seeks
[AVIOContext @ 0x7ff79942fdc0] Statistics: 1218 bytes read, 0 seeks
[AVIOContext @ 0x7ff79a2112a0] Statistics: 1218 bytes read, 0 seeks

Regards,
Andrew