Streaming hanging after a few seconds

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moviemaniac
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Streaming hanging after a few seconds

Post by moviemaniac » Thu Jun 17, 2010 7:59 pm

Hi,

I'm noticing this error on makeMKV 1.5.6 on Ubuntu 10.10 development branch: When streaming movies they hang after a few seconds regardless of the player and/or codec backend (gstreamer/ffmpeg) used. I tried recompiling MakeMKV as well as VLC but the error stayed. When I wanted to test a previous version of MakeMKV which worked perfectly I couldn't find the sources to download anymore :(
When I rip the BDs and make a MKV file, they play just fine.

Any ideas?

crowfax
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Re: Streaming hanging after a few seconds

Post by crowfax » Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:35 pm

Which version of VLC are you using?
Home Theater PC: Assassin HTPC, XBMCbuntu 12.0 (Frodo), Intel i5 3570k 3.4 GHz Ivy Bridge w/ HD 4000, LG BD-ROM
Playback Devices: Mede8er MED600X3D, MyGica EnjoyTV 120, Xtreamer SideWinder 3, Crystal Acoustics MediaMatchBox

moviemaniac
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Re: Streaming hanging after a few seconds

Post by moviemaniac » Thu Jun 17, 2010 8:43 pm

Always the latest one via git-checkout. ffmpeg is also kept up-to date at least twice a month fresh from upstream's svn. However, as I wrote, the same problem exists in programs using gstreamer like totem (which I don't build myself so I can rule that out as a source of the problem) and (s)mplayer which is also kept up-to-date by myself.

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Re: Streaming hanging after a few seconds

Post by moviemaniac » Sun Jun 20, 2010 9:15 am

Found a copy of 1.5.4's sources on my backintime-backup drive and everything works again, so I'd say this is a regression introduced between 1.5.5 and 1.5.6 (I remember 1.5.5 as working)

moviemaniac
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Re: Streaming hanging after a few seconds

Post by moviemaniac » Sun Jun 20, 2010 11:37 am

Okay, scratch that, 1.5.4 isn't working properly either, it has something to do with streaming from the disk

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Re: Streaming hanging after a few seconds

Post by moviemaniac » Sun Jun 20, 2010 4:49 pm

Okay, I found the culprit. I switched to the 2.6.35-rc-series about the time when I installed MakeMKV 1.5.6 - reverting to kernel 2.6.34 fixes the problem for me.

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Re: Streaming hanging after a few seconds

Post by crowfax » Sun Jun 20, 2010 5:04 pm

Hey,

Sorry I didn't get back to you, real life got in the way! Anyway, glad you have it fixed.
Home Theater PC: Assassin HTPC, XBMCbuntu 12.0 (Frodo), Intel i5 3570k 3.4 GHz Ivy Bridge w/ HD 4000, LG BD-ROM
Playback Devices: Mede8er MED600X3D, MyGica EnjoyTV 120, Xtreamer SideWinder 3, Crystal Acoustics MediaMatchBox

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Re: Streaming hanging after a few seconds

Post by moviemaniac » Sun Jun 20, 2010 5:06 pm

crowfax wrote:Hey,

Sorry I didn't get back to you, real life got in the way! Anyway, glad you have it fixed.
No problems. Anyway the real trouble begins now hunting down the real bug (regression) in the kernel - I've never done a git bisect on a project as big as the kernel itself :shock:

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