gst-streaming-server stalls

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-01-13 15:54, marcin at saepia.net wrote:
> Gary,
>
> I've created handler for this bug
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679950 and noticed that it
> happens quite often just before app stalls.
>
> So I am going try to patch 0.10.36 with this
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/patch/?id=cce71223d7b2f8227301f0724a18fc647f0cfd06
>
> and see if problem remains.
>
> If you could do the same it will be helpful in tracking down this issue,

No change, sorry

>
> Marcin
>
> 2013/1/12 Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com>:
>> 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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