[MPlayer-users] mplayer+ffmpeg streaming delay

[Victor Petrescu]

Thank you for your time. I can't test it right now but i'll come back with
an answer in about 19 hours (or with another thank you if I find the problem
:) )

2011/3/27 Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>

> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 01:28:37PM +0300, Victor Petrescu wrote:
> > Where the delay come from... I guess from the dump or from audio since
> when
> > I try like this:
> >  terminal 1:
> >   #mkfifo pipe.avi
> >   #ffserver &
> >   #ffmpeg -i pipe.video -r 24 http://localhost:8090/feed1.ffm
> >
> >   terminal 2:
> >   #mplayer -quiet -double -vo yuv4mpeg:file=pipe.video rtp://
> > 192.168.1.8:5004
> >
> > the delay is more than ok, but I'm not sure (that's why I'm asking you
> :P)
>
> You're testing the wrong way.
> I suggest to try in order:
> mplayer rtp://192.168.1.8:5004
> mplayer -demuxer lavf rtp://192.168.1.8:5004
> ffplay rtp://192.168.1.8:5004
> mplayer with dumpstream, ffmpeg to convert from pipe to another pipe and
> playing that pipe output with mplayer of ffplay
>
> > Same problem if I stream from a file.
>
> What if you replace rtp:// in the MPlayer command by a file?
>
> > So... what should I use instead of mpeg-ts?
>
> For startup time: any format will be better.
> However I don't know if any other format is supported by VLC properly.
>
> > I don't get the last one... it sound like creating a delay... and I want
> to
> > get rid of it :).
>
> Try setting -probesize to a smallish value. To small and you will randomly
> lose
> audio though. I hope you don't have subtitles, they won't work unless you
> use fairly
> large values here (which is why I said MPEG-TS isn't really suitable for
> this, there's
> no way to know what kind of stuff is in the TS stream).
> And please don't top-post, having a full quote below is only a waste of
> space,
> and putting your reply directly below a quote of precisely the part you
> reply to
> will make it easier to understand (e.g. "the last one" is fairly
> unspecific,
> just quoting the part you didn't understand would have been far more
> obvious).
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