[rtmpdump] another verifiable "video jumps-backwards" case
Gunnar
gunnar at surfnet.fi
Mon Aug 6 15:02:32 CEST 2012
Symptom (windows, on V 2.4, also 2.3)
Console %-counter goes to, lets say 0.8%, back to 0.2%, goes to 0.9%,
back to 0.4%, etc.
At every discontinuity a new "info page" of the video is printed
Stored video also "jumps backwards", repeats in the same way, file
becomes much larger than expected.
Using -V for more info seem to show it is connected to the
stream.pause.notify and unpause, send-pause interchange with server?
This eventually causes a "Stream EOF 1" message, and new attempt? but
jumps backwards?
In an earlier case I "butchered" the (V2.3) code, commented out the
send-pause code in rtmpdump, "fixed" the problem but the download speed
of course dropped to "nominal",etc side effects.
the full rtmpdump argument line
rtmpdump -V -r "rtmp://video.c-spanarchives.org:1935/bwcheck" -a
"bwcheck" -f "WIN 11,3,300,270" -W
"http://www.c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/assets/swf/CSPANPlayer.swf?ver=12.3.29.2&programid=276276&rand=1600726779"
-p "http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/TaxPolicyR" -y
"mp4:downloads/305/305813-2/305813-2-MP4-STD/305813-2-MP4-STD_01.mp4" -o
305813-2-MP4-STD_01test.flv
minimal argument line
rtmpdump -V -r "rtmp://video.c-spanarchives.org:1935/bwcheck" -a
"bwcheck" -y
"mp4:downloads/305/305813-2/305813-2-MP4-STD/305813-2-MP4-STD_01.mp4" -o
test.flv
http://c-span.org is not any "flash-by-night" streamer, but THE MAJOR
ONE, have 30 years 24/7 archived of US congressional sessions ,
hearings,etc,etc probably "largest in world", 100,000s hours of
"professional streams".
However, they use different servers for different archived material,
some clearly outsourced
This problem seems to be connected to some recent upgrade on this
specific stream-server service.
That is, recently new server sw-versions on c-spanarchives and maybe
that new app bwcheck, never seen it before.
Gunnar
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