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mplayer play rtmp stalled

Hi all

When I play rtmp://localhost/vod/mp4:mytest.mp4 with mplayer, both in ubuntu 12.04 and CentOS 6.3, mplayer will be stalled, and ffplay works fine.

But when I use Red5, both mplayer and ffplayer work fine, do you think it’s a bug in mplayer or in Wowza?

BTW, mplayer could play rtmp://localhost/vod/mp4:sample.mp4 and rtsp://localhost:1935/vod/mp4:mytest.mp4.

Best,

An Yang

Hi

I think its more likely an issue with the content itself.

You can bring up the codec information for the content by typing:

ffmpeg -i mytest.mp4

Jason

Hi

Looking at the specs found here,

http://www.wowza.com/media-server#specifications

Wowza cant play ac3 audio.

I can only assume that’s why the the player crashes when using Wowza to play mytest.mp4.

Jason

Hi

Does Wowza give a message of any kind in the logs?

Jason

ffmpeg -i ocean.mp4

FFmpeg version 0.6.5, Copyright © 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers

built on Jan 29 2012 17:52:15 with gcc 4.4.5 20110214 (Red Hat 4.4.5-6)

configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/share/man --incdir=/usr/include --disable-avisynth --extra-cflags=’-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -fPIC’ --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libdirac --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaadbin --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libx264 --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-postproc --enable-pthreads --enable-shared --enable-swscale --enable-vdpau --enable-version3 --enable-x11grab

libavutil 50.15. 1 / 50.15. 1

libavcodec 52.72. 2 / 52.72. 2

libavformat 52.64. 2 / 52.64. 2

libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0

libavfilter 1.19. 0 / 1.19. 0

libswscale 0.11. 0 / 0.11. 0

libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0

Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from ‘ocean.mp4’:

Metadata:

major_brand : isom

minor_version : 1

compatible_brands: isomavc1

Duration: 01:41:27.04, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 1844 kb/s

Stream #0.0(und): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720 [PAR 1:1 DAR 16:9], 1649 kb/s, 24 fps, 24 tbr, 96 tbn, 48 tbc

Stream #0.1(zho): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 192 kb/s

At least one output file must be specified

HI JasonH,

Please note that mplayer could play rtsp://localhost:1935/vod/mp4:mytest.mp4 without any sound.