Cannot seek in streams?

[CybrFyre]

referring to the http streaming capability of makemkv.

Is being able to seek expected not to work?

(please note my main media player is mplayer -- though, I just quickly tried with vlc and also no go on seeking).

thanks.

[mike admin]

referring to the http streaming capability of makemkv.

Is being able to seek expected not to work?

(please note my main media player is mplayer -- though, I just quickly tried with vlc and also no go on seeking).

thanks.

Yes, seeking is explicitly supported and should work in VLC.

[CybrFyre]

I wanted to update on this issue...

Just grabbed the latest mplayer. Have makemkv 1.5.6 . Fedora Core 13.

With mplayer, as long as I do not seek, the stream plays find. Trying to seek be it via chapters or be it via the normal 10 seconds/1 minute/10 minutes skip keys, mplayer just jumps a few seconds ahead, and then plays from there (no matter which way I try to skip). Where the problem lies is an interesing question.

thanks.

[rcork]

I am getting a fatal error when trying to seek via VLC. I've inluded the relevent log messages from VLC below. I am using MakeMKV 1.5.8 and VLC 1.1.3. The disc i am trying to stream is Band of Brothers Disc 1.

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access_http debug: trying to seek to 1228405774
main debug: net: connecting to 192.168.1.112 port 51000
main debug: connection succeeded (socket = 15)
main error: Read error: Connection reset by peer
access_http error: failed to read answer
access_http error: seek failed
main error: INPUT_CONTROL_SET_POSITION(_OFFSET) 6.7% failed
ts debug: eof ?
main debug: EOF reached
main debug: finished input
main debug: waitpipe: object killed
avcodec debug: ffmpeg codec (Windows Media Video VC1) stopped
main debug: removing module "avcodec"
main debug: killing decoder fourcc `VC-1', 0 PES in FIFO

[mike admin]

Do you see any messages in MakeMKV if you enabled debug messages?

[BitJam2]

Seeking on makemkv streams works great here (64-bit Gentoo) with vlc-1.1.4.

I wasn't able to view "Avatar" via stream on vlc even though it works okay with another player (xbmc). So far both "Tekkonkinkreet" and "Planet Earth Disc 2" have worked by streaming to vlc and the seeking worked great.

[rcork]

Looks like the issue is with the OSX version of MakeMKV. Streaming works fine when running MakeMKV under Windows or Linux. Still have the same "Fatal error" when trying to seek or change tracks when running MakeMKV from OSX. The log shows no error or issue.

[BitJam2]

Could it be that the problem is in the OS-X version of vlc and not makemkv?

[rcork]

Could it be that the problem is in the OS-X version of vlc and not makemkv?

I thought of that too but i think i've narrowed it down to MakeMKV on OSX. This is what i've tried

MakeMKV [OSX] -> VLC [OSX] - FAIL
MakeMKV [OSX] -> VLC [Ubuntu] - FAIL
MakeMKV [Ubuntu] -> VLC [OSX] - PASS
MakeMKV [Windows] -> VLC [Ubuntu] - PASS
MakeMKV [Windows] -> VLC [OSX] - PASS

The only thing i couldn't test was a Windows uPnP client as VLC on Windows doesn't support uPnP streams and Boxee and XBMC wouldn't play the m2ts files.

[mike admin]

Thanks for narrowing it down, bug noted.