[FFmpeg-user] Webm from ffserver to Firefox – Firefox spinner keeps on spinning!

[Thomas Seilund]

On 06-11-2013 15:35, Thomas Seilund wrote:
>
> On 01-11-2013 08:38, Thomas Seilund wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I use ffserver and ffmpeg to live stream sport events.
>>
>> ffserver creates a webm stream.
>>
>> When the webm stream is picked up by Chrome the stream plays fine.
>>
>> When the webm stream is picked up by Firefox I only see the first 
>> frame and the Firefox spinner spins for ever.
>>
>> When I end the Chrome session I note that I get an output on the 
>> ffserver console. I assume the output informs about the amount of 
>> data sent from ffserver to Chrome.
>>
>> I get the same output on the ffserver console when I end the non 
>> functioning Firefox session. It seems that ffserver does send data to 
>> Firefox but the Firefox spinner keeps on spinning.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated on getting the webm stream to play on 
>> Firefox.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Thomas S
>>
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> Hi All
>
> I found this 
> http://ffmpeg-users.933282.n4.nabble.com/Firefox-not-playing-audio-of-webm-file-td4661093.html
>
> I changed this entries in the ffserver config file:
>
> AudioBitRate 64  is now AudioBitRate 48
>
> Now, sound and video is ok in Firefox.
>
> Thanks
>
> Thomas S
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Hi All,

I was wrong - sorry!

I simply can't make Firefox play the video created by ffserver. The 
video plays fine in chrome.

Here is my ffserver config file.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

PS - If I add NoAudio then I am able to at least make the video play in 
firefox.

Port 8090
BindAddress 0.0.0.0
MaxHTTPConnections 2000
MaxClients 1000
MaxBandwidth 10000
CustomLog -
NoDaemon

<Feed feed1.ffm>
File /tmp/feed1.ffm
FileMaxSize 1G
ACL allow 127.0.0.1
</Feed>

<Stream live.webm>
Feed feed1.ffm
Format webm
AudioBitRate 64
AudioSampleRate 48000
VideoSize 720x576
VideoFrameRate 25
AVOptionVideo flags +global_header
AVOptionAudio flags +global_header
PreRoll 15
StartSendOnKey
VideoBitRate 400
#NoAudio
</Stream>

<Stream stat.html>
Format status
# Only allow local people to get the status
ACL allow localhost
ACL allow 192.168.0.0 192.168.255.255
</Stream>

# Redirect index.html to the appropriate site
<Redirect index.html>
URL http://www.ffmpeg.org/
</Redirect>

Thanks

Thomas S