gst-streaming-server stalls

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-01-11 06:34, marcin at saepia.net wrote:
> I have an Gst 0.10 app where I don't use gst-streaming-server but
> achieve something similar by just a bunch of dynamic pipelines +
> libsoup-based HTTP server and I also expect strange stalls but I am
> unable to figure out what's causing this... It just stops for a while.
>
> Which versions of Gst and associated libraries you use? Maybe there's
> a pattern...

I'm stuck in the past (little hope of moving to 1.x for this project):
   gstreamer 0.10.36
   gst-plugins-base 0.10.36
   gst-plugins-good 0.10.31
   gst-plugins-bad 0.10.23
   gst-streaming-server git:0626120ff5672bcbfc7394e4a8bb08cdb602cbac

> 2013/1/10 David Schleef <ds at schleef.org>:
>> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 09:53:28AM -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> I'm trying to run the gst-streaming-server, using one of the
>>> sample streaming sources provided with that package.  It sort
>>> of works, but the stream(s) are erratic and often just stop for
>>> long periods of time.  The stream has a time overlay and what
>>> I see is the timer stop and then when the video starts playing
>>> again, the timer carries on just where it left off. For example,
>>> it might pause at time 05.07 sec and wait 60 seconds before
>>> playing anything else and when it does, the timer continues
>>> right at 05.07 seconds and counting.  However, I can see HTTP
>>> traffic between my web browser and the server even when the
>>> video is stalled, so I'm really confused!
>>>
>>> I also get very different displays depending on the browser.
>>> FireFox (17.0.1) seems to stall less frequently, but it doesn't
>>> even show the timer overlay (that one really stumps me).  Google
>>> Chrome (20.0.1132.47 Ubuntu 12.04 (144678)) stalls a lot but
>>> does show the timer.
>>
>> These sound like problems in the client playback.  It is good to
>> also verify with Totem and VLC, as they have more robust and mature
>> playback engines.
>>
>> The pipeline you listed is just the push-icecast-webm script, which
>> is frequently tested and is known to work.
>>
>>
>>
>> David
>>
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