VLM config panel inoperative; takes 2 minutes to start playing; restarts local playback but does not restart output stream
Sorry, but I don't know if these have already been reported.
VLC Bug list from SlowTalkinJones, on XP Pro SP3, using VLC ver 0.9.8a Grishenko
SUMMARY:
A. VLM Configuration panel is inoperative;
B. it takes something over 2 minutes for VLC to start playing audio or streaming output when the input is a Windows Media Encoder running on the same computer;
C. If the encoder stops then restarts, sout-keep only restarts the local display/playback, not the output stream
NOTE: in this test, I am connecting VLC to a Windows Media Encoder running on the same computer. It will stream the encoder input, without transcoding, going out on port 8081. Another copy of VLC on an adjacent computer will attempt to connect to the first VLC on port 8081 and play the stream.
VLC to encoder: • Name: WMEncoder • Input: http://127.0.0.1:8080 • Output: :sout=#transcode{vcodec=WMV2,vb=800,scale=1,acodec=wma,ab=32,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=http,mux=asf,dst=:8081}} :sout-all :sout-keep
ENCODER: Output is set to Pull, using port 8080, streaming an endlessly looped audio file encoded at 32 kbps.
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on the VLM configurator tab, Import can't find a .VLM file that exists. You can type in the name of the file, and VLC appears to open it, but none of the attributes from the VLM file are present on the VLM configurator tab.
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clicking on the .vlm file, if file associations are set, will launch VLC, but the attributes from the VLM are not initiated. If you then open the VLM configurator tab, none of the attributes from the VLM file are present
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After manually loading a Media Manager, in the section of the dialog box with the bunch of icons: I made a Media Manager named "WM Encoder", the checkbox is checked, but it isn't obvious what purpose that checkbox serves. Then there are what looks like a play button, a stop button, and another mystery button (no tool tips, so they aren't self-identifying). If I click on the Play button, the triangle inside the icon disappears, and we are left with an empty button. There is no indication that clicking on that Play button actually did anything. Clicking on what appears to be a Stop button also does nothing (that I can tell), and the same with the mystery button. Reclicking on the Start button (minus the triangle) still appears to cause no action - the main interface of VLC shows no change, and no indication that it is playing anything.
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With the Encoder running (playing an endlessly looped file), I click on the VLC main interface start button. Nothing appears in the status pane, the timers have gone from dashes to 00:00/00:00. Nothing happens. Nothing that I click on will make VLC come to life.
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(sigh) I start over again, after closing VLC. I reload all the data in the Media Manager page, and click the little start button - that again appears to do nothing but lose its little triangle.
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(sigh) I start over again, after closing VLC. I reload all the data in the Media Manager page, this time I don't click the little start button, instead close the Media Manager VLM page, and click the start button on the main VLC interface: it opens up the file selector. How, oh how, am I to get VLC going???
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I go back to the VLM page, and click the little start button, and close the dialog box. No change. OK, how about if I click the Stop button, and then click the Start button -- because I know about the 2:05 delay, each time I go to test another step, I have to wait two minutes before I know for sure that the previous step didn't actually work.
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This time I go to Media | Stream, and click on the Stream button - nothing. I added checkbox "Keep stream output open", "Enable streaming of all ES". I try again, clicking here, clicking there -- still nothing. VLC won't play with me.
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OK, so VLM doesn't work. So now I set VLC up using Media | Open Network, and make the same configuration, and it now streams. The main interface status panel goes to "Streaming" right away, but it takes 2 minutes and 5 seconds to produce any audio.
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sout-keep is set, but doesn't work correctly. If the encoder is stopped, wait a while, then restarted, VLC will pick up the audio for local display/playback, but it does not resume the output stream. VLC must be stopped then restarted -- wait 2:05, then the output stream will resume.
regards,
SlowTalkinJones