HLS stream that cannot be played with latest VLC 1.2

The latest VLC nightly 1.2 cannot play HTTP (Live) Streaming, for example this one: http://epirat.basedrive.net/ReLive/WRINT/WRINT017/WRINT017_audiomp3_64k.m3u8. It will be added to the playlist, but when you hit play button, nothing will be played, you can only see the timer count. And the length of the stream is wrong too. I hope this can be fixed (even the current version of VLC can play these stream, only makes big gaps between audio files)

added Severity::normal Type::bug Version::master git + 1 deleted label

changed milestone to %Bugs paradize

Log

Added attachment:

• VLC Debug-Protokoll (1.2.0-git Twoflower).rtf

unassigned @Courmisch

Please reassign. No time for this myself.

added Component::Input: network streams label and removed 1 deleted label

Replying to [ticket:5370 ePirat]:

The latest VLC nightly 1.2 cannot play HTTP (Live) Streaming, for example this one: ... Outdated, new stream if you need to test: http://epirat.basedrive.net/ReLive/WRINT/26/WRINT026_audiomp3_64k.m3u8

Added attachment:

• VLC Debug Log (1.2.0-pre3 Twoflower) - WhiteViking - Intel64.rtfd.zip

I cannot reproduce this problem. I am using Mac OS X Lion (10.7.2) on an Early 2011 13-inch MacBook Pro.

The two nightly builds that I tried are:

• 1.2-branch-intel-20111222-0213.zip
• 1.2-branch-intel64-20111222-0312.zip

Steps followed:

• Start VLC
• Open http://epirat.basedrive.net/ReLive/WRINT/26/WRINT026_audiomp3_64k.m3u8 via File > Open Network...
• Click the play button

A German stream is played normally.

For reference I attached the log file for my run with the version of 1.2-branch-intel64-20111222-0312.zip.

A build from the latest 1.3 sources (compiled myself) also plays the stream fine.

Weird, works for me here too now, great! But still a problem is that you cannot seek, which should be possible cause it isn't a live stream. (Indicated by the #EXT-X-ENDLIST tag at the end of the m3u8 playlist)

Replying to [comment:4 ePirat]:

Weird, works for me here too now, great! But still a problem is that you cannot seek, which should be possible cause it isn't a live stream. (Indicated by the #EXT-X-ENDLIST tag at the end of the m3u8 playlist)

Right. If I open the same stream with QuickTime Player (Version 10.1 (501.5)) on that Lion MacBook Pro, the duration of the stream is shown (02:57:59) and seeking works nicely. The time elapsed since the start of the stream and the remaining time are correctly shown during playback and when seeking. One would expect VLC to behave similarly.

changed title from HTTP-(Live)Streaming cannot be played with latest VLC 1.2 to HLS stream that cannot be played with latest VLC 1.2

This is fixed by :

• http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2012-January/084895.html
• http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2012-January/084896.html

But it depends a lot on other patches. Depending on which patch(es) get merged, I'll rebase new patch, or this will just get applied!

Windows, 32 bit using VLC media player 1.3.0-git-20120115-0010 Rincewind can't open it, seems having encoding/decoding problems: http://pastebin.com/CxMFz1dr After downloading the playlist (and ofc changing to absolute url's cause this is needed when opening local) and converting to UTF-8 it worked. On the latetst mac vlc version it works fine without encoding problems.

(The Playlist url used to test was http://epirat.basedrive.net/ReLive/WRINT/33/WRINT_audiomp3_64k.m3u8 )

tried 2.1.0-git Rincewind (revision c16d7996) on ubuntu i386 with no success

from log it seems segments are downloaded but no audio/video i get lots of

ps warning: found sync code
ps debug: force SCR: 26021767
mpeg_audio debug: emulated startcode
stream_filter_httplive warning: buffer is NULL (allocate 509)

in debug log

tried http://epirat.basedrive.net/ReLive/WRINT/33/WRINT_audiomp3_64k.m3u8 and http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbop/bipbopall.m3u8

i guess patches mentioned above were not yet merged is there any version with working HLS?

Original author: https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=aitoawkxtptc5koehcyzf_kssxzgbflb_7obwdi

Hello,

http://epirat.basedrive.net/ReLive/WRINT/33/WRINT_audiomp3_64k.m3u8 works, but can't be seeked. (A patch to solve this was provided, I guess i'll rebase it onto master)

http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbop/bipbopall.m3u8 works and can be seeked.

I just tested with the current master branch.

Hello,

The seeking problem is fixed in master. Playback still works for me, could you try again?

added Status::fixed label

closed

changed milestone to %2.1 features