Russell Greene
Russell Greene
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7105082/145859086-f337d027-59b1-4ff9-983a-2cf92d3826e6.mp4 Can't seem to repro on `master`.... Could this be an issue with the srt version that VLC is finding? I'm using VLC on arch, and I notice ti's an...
Well looking at my video there is a whole slew of "packet dropped" messages but idk if these are because it's not valid video data or not...
If you're interested, it would be great to have an example that actually streams a .ts file--we already have ac-ffmpeg as an optional dependency for examples, I'll code one up...
Ok, works fine for a real video for me: ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/7105082/145860604-186fdbae-3252-48d4-8463-dcbd24c7a021.png)
I think VLC must bundle an ancient SRT version. it seems that you're on macOS, and I'm not sure what version it is. Could you find out? On my linux...
Ceetainally not a high up feature on my list. You're welcome to implement it if you want, but in general compatibility with very old srt versions is not a huge...
Closing for now.
Yes but VLC internally uses Haivision's srt implementation to support playing srt streams. Whoever builds VLC integrates a very old version.
After looking a bit more, only VLC 4.x bundles a new enough libsrt: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/blob/3.0.x/contrib/src/srt/rules.mak (3.x dev branch, bundles 1.2.3) https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/blob/master/contrib/src/srt/rules.mak (4.x dev branch, bundles 1.4.2) Try the 4.x dev binaries...
Going to reopen this as it seems like it may be a useful feature at some point.