[Libav-user] EPERM when seeking in live HLS

[Louis Letourneau]

I'm trying to process a live HLS stream. The source encoding comes from
ffmpeg using -hls_playlist_type event so it's seekable.

most of the time there is no issue, but once in awhile when calling:
int ret = av_seek_frame(ic, videostream, timestamp, AVSEEK_FLAG_BACKWARD);
if(ret < 0) {
    char buf[2048];
    av_strerror(ret, buf, 2048);
    printf("Couldn't seek!!!!! Reason: %s\n", buf);
    break;
}

I get EPERM (Operation not permitted).

Then I just need to wait ~1s retry and it works.

When enabling full debug, there are 2 messages that popup when the error
occurs:
no picture ooo
and
Frame num gap 1 14
Frame num gap 1 15

These both happen in libavcodec/h264_slice.c

Can anyone explain what could cause this? I don't 100% understand what
could cause this.

Oh and this never ever happens once the m3u8 is complete and is not live
anymore.

Thank you
Louis

P.S. if it helps here's the full encoding syntax:
ffmpeg -re -i z.m3u8 -an -codec:v libx264 -crf 23 -preset fast -pix_fmt
yuv420p -force_key_frames "expr:gte(t,n_forced*5)" -bf 0 -hls_time 5
-hls_list_size 0 -hls_wrap 0 -hls_allow_cache 1 -hls_playlist_type event
-hls_segment_filename "w/w-1_%04d.ts" w/w-1.m3u8
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