<div dir="ltr"><div>Package: vlc<br>Version: 1:2.2.0~pre3-dmo2<br>Severity: normal<br><br>Dear Maintainer,<br><br>x What led up to the situation?<br><br>After upgrading/updating Debian's VLC packages last week, I noticed that VLC no<br>longer plays streamed videos (over HTTP), and the connection is dropped after a<br>few seconds on any HD stream, which did not happen with the previous versions<br>(2.1.3->2.1.5)<br>The specific feature that I use to access HTTP streams is under File -> "Open<br>Network Stream" or by pasting the video URL from the clipboard.<br><br>x What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?<br><br>At first I thought it was an issue only with videos on YouTube (since that's<br>where I watch most of the streamed videos), but I've tested out HD streams from<br>multiple sites/servers and the same happens.<br><br>For more details and for the log that VLC outputs during streaming (and<br>dropping the connection) I previously posted a thread on VideoLan Forums (where<br>I didn't get any answer). Here's the thread:<br><a href="https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=121661">https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=121661</a><br><br></div>And here's the transcript from the thread:<br><br>________________________________________________________________<br><br>After I updated VLC to the latest version on the unstable repos in
Debian, I cannot watch YouTube videos anymore as they keep stuttering
and loading very slowly (this mostly happens when watching HD videos,
this didn't happen before I upgraded though), to a point where the
connection drops. HTTP streaming might be affected by this too. Here's
how the log looks:<br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><dl class=""><dd><code>core debug: net: connecting to <a href="http://r14---sn-c0q7ln7y.googlevideo.com">r14---sn-c0q7ln7y.googlevideo.com</a> port 80<br>core debug: connection succeeded (socket = 13)<br>http debug: protocol 'HTTP' answer code 206<br>http debug: Content-Type: video/mp4<br>http debug: stream size=80906441,pos=1250884,remaining=79655557<br>http debug: this frame size=79655557<br>http debug: Connection: close<br>http debug: Server: gvs 1.0<br>http debug: trying to seek to 1093302<br>core debug: net: connecting to <a href="http://r14---sn-c0q7ln7y.googlevideo.com">r14---sn-c0q7ln7y.googlevideo.com</a> port 80<br>core debug: connection succeeded (socket = 13)<br>http debug: protocol 'HTTP' answer code 206<br>http debug: Content-Type: video/mp4<br>http debug: stream size=80906441,pos=1093302,remaining=79813139<br>http debug: this frame size=79813139<br>http debug: Connection: close<br>http debug: Server: gvs 1.0</code></dd><dt>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</dt></dl><p><br>It keeps repeating the same messages and floods the log window,
which didn't happen before when streaming (yes, it was set to Verbosity
level 2) . Also the CPU usage is unusual, takes up 20-30% extra per CPU.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><code>core debug: net: connecting to <a href="http://r4---sn-4g57kuel.googlevideo.com">r4---sn-4g57kuel.googlevideo.com</a> port 80<br>core debug: connection succeeded (socket = 14)<br>http debug: protocol 'HTTP' answer code 206<br>http debug: Content-Type: video/mp4<br>http debug: stream size=53528086,pos=1016739,remaining=52511347<br>http debug: this frame size=52511347<br>http debug: Connection: close<br>http debug: Server: gvs 1.0<br>core debug: Buffering 54%<br>mp4 warning: track[0x2] will be disabled (eof?)<br>core debug: discarded audio buffer<br>core debug: removing module "faad"<br>core debug: killing decoder fourcc `mp4a', 59 PES in FIFO<br>core debug: removing module "samplerate"<br>core debug: removing module "scaletempo"<br>core debug: removing module "float_mixer"<br>core debug: keeping audio output<br>core debug: EOF reached<br>core debug: Stream buffering done (1381 ms in 4882 ms)<br>core debug: Decoder wait done in 0 ms<br>core debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty<br>core debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty<br>core debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty<br>core debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty<br>core debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty<br>core debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty<br>core debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty<br>core debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty<br>core debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty<br>core debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty<br>core debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty<br>core debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty<br>core debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty<br>core debug: waiting decoder fifos to empty<br>core debug: finished input<br>core debug: object waitpipe triggered<br>core debug: removing module "avcodec"<br>avcodec debug: ffmpeg codec (H264 - MPEG-4 AVC (part 10)) stopped<br>core debug: killing decoder fourcc `h264', 0 PES in FIFO<br>core debug: saving a free vout<br>core debug: reusing provided vout<br>qt4 debug: Qt: Fullscreen state changed<br>core debug: removing module "mp4"<br>mp4 debug: freeing all memory<br>core debug: removing module "record"<br>core debug: removing module "http"<br>core debug: Program doesn't contain anymore ES<br>core debug: dead input<br>core debug: changing item without a request (current 0/1)<br>core debug: nothing to play<br>core debug: destroying useless vout<br>core debug: removing module "xcb_glx"<br>core debug: removing module "glx"<br>qt4 debug: IM: Deleting the input<br>core debug: removing module "xdg"<br>qt4 debug: releasing video...<br>qt4 debug: Video is not needed anymore<br>core debug: removing module "freetype"<br>core debug: removing module "yuvp"<br>core debug: removing module "swscale"</code></p><p>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<code><br></code></p><div><br><br><br>-- System Information:<br>Debian Release: jessie/sid<br> APT prefers unstable<br> APT policy: (500, 'unstable')<br>Architecture: i386 (i686)<br><br>Kernel: Linux 3.16-3.dmz.1-liquorix-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)<br>Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)<br>Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash<br><br>Versions of packages vlc depends on:<br>ii fonts-freefont-ttf 20120503-4<br>ii libaa1 1.4p5-43<br>ii libavcodec56 10:2.4-dmo1<br>ii libavutil54 10:2.4-dmo1<br>ii libc6 2.19-11<br>ii libcaca0 0.99.beta19-2<br>ii libegl1-mesa [libegl1-x11] 10.2.6-1<br>ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-1.1<br>ii libfribidi0 0.19.6-2<br>ii libgcc1 1:4.9.1-14<br>ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 10.2.6-1<br>ii libpulse0 5.0-6<br>ii libqtcore4 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-2<br>ii libqtgui4 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-2<br>ii libsdl-image1.2 1.2.12-5+b2<br>pn libsdl1.2debian <none><br>ii libstdc++6 4.9.1-14<br>ii libva-drm1 1.3.1-3<br>ii libva-x11-1 1.3.1-3<br>ii libva1 1.3.1-3<br>ii libvlccore8 1:2.2.0~pre3-dmo2<br>ii libvncclient0 0.9.9+dfsg-6<br>ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3<br>ii libxcb-composite0 1.10-3<br>ii libxcb-keysyms1 0.3.9-2<br>ii libxcb-randr0 1.10-3<br>ii libxcb-shm0 1.10-3<br>ii libxcb-xv0 1.10-3<br>ii libxcb1 1.10-3<br>ii libxext6 2:1.3.2-1<br>ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.3-1<br>ii libxpm4 1:3.5.11-1<br>ii vlc-nox 1:2.2.0~pre3-dmo2<br>ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2<br><br>Versions of packages vlc recommends:<br>ii vlc-plugin-notify 1:2.2.0~pre3-dmo2<br>ii vlc-plugin-pulse 1:2.2.0~pre3-dmo2<br>ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.1<br><br>Versions of packages vlc suggests:<br>pn videolan-doc <none><br><br>-- no debconf information<br><br></div></div>