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Playhead not moving and time at 00:00 Created Feb 17, 2009

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Narayan

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Playhead not moving and time at 00:00

Posted: Feb 17, 2009

I have set up a pseudostreaming player at:

http://www.ivfpodcasts.com/IVF_Podcasts/Podcasts.php?Dr.-Zsolt-Peter-Nagy-Oocyte-Vitrification-15

However, when playing the mp4 the playhead does not move and the time played stays at 00:00 even though the video is playing.

I have tested it on my Mac with both Safari and Firefox.

Any ideas?
Thank you :)

Buzz
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» Playhead not moving and time at 00:00

Posted: Feb 17, 2009

Reply to: Playhead not moving and time at 00:00, from Narayan
This is typical of missing keyframe meta data, seeking fails aswell

After diging through a horder of debug info I found the following:

[INFO] time 14:49:49.16 :: org.flowplayer.model::Clip : [Clip] 'Egg_Freeze_Edit.mp4' dispatchEvent(), event [ClipEvent type="onMetaData" info=null]Podcasts...cation-15 (line 0)

Leading me to believe your stream is missing meta data.

Narayan

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» » Playhead not moving and time at 00:00

Posted: Feb 17, 2009

Reply to: » Playhead not moving and time at 00:00, from DBusby
Thank you Buzz,

This was encoded as m4v and renamed to mp4, encoded with quicktime player.
As an m4v the file did not seek at all. As mp4 it did seem to seek when loading.

I would like to try getting a properly encoded file with metadata, what program can I use with my Mac?

Many thanks

Christian Ebert
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» » » Playhead not moving and time at 00:00

Posted: Feb 17, 2009

Reply to: » » Playhead not moving and time at 00:00, from Narayan
If you encode with QuickTime mp4 metadata is by default put at the end of the file.

You either have to tick the "enable for streaming" switch in QuickTime or use eg. qt-fastart from the ffmpeg package.

However ffmpeg is a command line tool, so in case you prefer gui you might want to google for MplayerX (mplayer uses the ffmpeg libraries). It might have a similar graphical switch.

Narayan

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Posted: Feb 17, 2009

Reply to: » » » Playhead not moving and time at 00:00, from blacktrash
Awesome, I'll give that a try.

Thank you blacktrash

Narayan

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Posted: Feb 18, 2009

Reply to: » » » » Playhead not moving and time at 00:00, from Narayan
I have spent about 8 hours going round in circles.

I have tried Quicktime - Mpeg 4 export & H.264 with streaming enabled with and without optimized for server same issue, timer not counting up & staying at 00:00.

I have exported with visualvub, this does have a place to force ffmpeg encoding and Extra FFmpeg flags from a dropdown menu. No luck with the settings I tried. I tried with and without RTSP streaming checked.

I looked at ffmpeg and downloaded it but I have no idea where to start with that.

I have downloaded mp4box for mac & Episode (which didn't work even though it would cost nearly $500). I searched for MplayerX but that did not seem to have an export feature.

Everything I have tried has been in vain so I now have no idea what to try next. Is there an ffmpeg qt-fastart for dummies tutorial anywhere?

Should Quicktime work? Am I doing anything wrong?
Is there an easy way to check if the file has streaming metadata without uploading each time?

Christian Ebert
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Posted: Feb 18, 2009

Reply to: » » » » » Playhead not moving and time at 00:00, from Narayan
Hi Narayan,

Hope you had some sleep by now ;-)

I tried your site, and:

1) when I move the playhead immediately after the movie starts, everything seems to work. Timer doesn't stay at 0, I can move around etc. So I doesn't look like the movie is at fault.

2) You have set up another (overlay) player in the head section of your page. Did you try without it?

3) Just to be sure: try declaring 'pseudo' provider before actually using it (move plugins: after clip:).

4) For testing: leave out/set to false the autoPlay and autoBuffering parameters.

It might very well be a bug in the pseudostreaming plugin (for mp4), or a variant of

http://www.flowplayer.org/forum/8/14032#post-14377

arjen

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Posted: Feb 18, 2009

Reply to: » » » » » » Playhead not moving and time at 00:00, from blacktrash
Hi,

It's a bug in the current version of the 'pseudo' provider. We've looked at it yesterday and send a fix to the Flowplayer people, so it will probably be fixed soon. If you can't wait, you can use the h264streaming plugin available here http://h264.code-shop.com/trac/wiki/FlowPlayer).

Regards

Narayan

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Posted: Feb 18, 2009

Reply to: » » » » » » » Playhead not moving and time at 00:00, from arjen
Thanks you blacktrash and arjen,

It's good to hear there is a fix. I also got a sneak peak at some of your films blacktrash, when I get some spare time I will check them out :)

Buzz
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Posted: Feb 26, 2009

Reply to: » » Playhead not moving and time at 00:00, from Narayan
Sorry for the late reply.

Handbrake.fr is a good GUI for media encoding.