[Ffmpeg-devel] Ffplay: streaming in ogg and asf container bro ken

[Klaas-Pieter Vlieg]

> From: Klaas-Pieter Vlieg [mailto:vlieg at eurescom.eu] 
> Sent: 18 February 2007 00:32
> 
> With the recent versions of ffmpeg I can not play mpeg4/mp3 
> streams in asf and ogg container via http.
> At least until july '06 this was possible. My client is 
> ffplay (windows & linux) and vlc is server.
> 
> Asf streams quit immediate with an open file error. Ogg 
> streams eventually segfault in ogg_read_page() (ogg2.c) after 
> av_malloc() has failed.
> 
> Transport streams (h264/mp3 in ts container) work fine as before.
> 
> I'm trying to find out what causes the problem.
> ...
>
Argh, it's a network timing issue.
Streaming ogg and asf works just fine after adding a delay in http.c after http_connect() at line 97 streaming. Dunno yet if the problem is on http or tcp level.

Does anyone have an explanation for this?

Klaas-Pieter Vlieg