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Bug 560871 - Cannot play live TV from Danmark Radio
Cannot play live TV from Danmark Radio
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gst-plugins
0.10.23
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: git master
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-11-14 23:38 UTC by Alexander Hunziker
Modified: 2011-05-20 07:52 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.25/2.26



Description Alexander Hunziker 2008-11-14 23:38:57 UTC
Danish TV is providing live streams of their two mains channels in H.264 and MP4 streamed over RTSP. The URIs can be found on this page: http://www.dr.dk/hjaelp/drdktv/20080108145038.htm. Both the H.264 and MP4 versions work fine in VLC, which is also the player DR recommends. Using GStreamer, I'm having problems to watch the streams. I'm using the GStreamer in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex and have all plugins installed. No 3rd party plugins (Fluendo) are enabled.

* MP4 in totem: Sometimes works fine, though sometimes no sound. In those cases, restarting the stream can help.

* H.264 in totem: Very choppy (about 1frame/s), sound only during the first fractions of a second, thereafter no sound

* H.264 with gst-launch0.10 playbin2 rtsp:..... Kinda works, spits out error messages:

WARNING: from element /GstPlayBin2:playbin20/GstPlaySink:playsink0/GstBin:abin/GstAutoAudioSink:audiosink/GstPulseSink:audiosink-actual-sink-pulse: Compensating for audio synchronisation problems
Additional debug info:
gstbaseaudiosink.c(1395): gst_base_audio_sink_render (): /GstPlayBin2:playbin20/GstPlaySink:playsink0/GstBin:abin/GstAutoAudioSink:audiosink/GstPulseSink:audiosink-actual-sink-pulse:
Unexpected discontinuity in audio timestamps of more than half a second (0:00:00.528000000), resyncing
Comment 1 Alexander Hunziker 2009-05-29 19:42:50 UTC
Just an update to the problem description:

Meanwhile using Ubuntu Jaunty, with GStreamer up2date from the gstreamer-developers PPA.

* Again, the MP4 stream in Totem works, once it successfully started (though sometimes it doesn't)

* No luck with the H.264 streams. A first picture is shown, and half a second of sound played, thereafter I get the errors as posted originally, about the "unexpected discontinuity in audio timestamps"
Comment 2 Alexander Hunziker 2009-10-11 21:47:37 UTC
Again updated problem description for Ubuntu Karmic with GStreamer 0.10.25, GStreamer FFMPEG 0.10.9, GStreamer Plugins Good 0.10.16

* The MP4 stream still works, both in Totem 2.28 and from command line.

* The H.264 doesn't start playing in Totem 2.28. Looking at this from the command line reveals that this is a playbin2 vs. playbin issue. While playbin still shows the issues described above (sync problems), playbin2 doesn't start playing at all.
Comment 3 Sebastian Dröge (slomo) 2011-05-19 09:00:42 UTC
Is this still a problem with the latest releases and playbin2? The original URL with the test streams does not work anymore.
Comment 4 Alexander Hunziker 2011-05-20 07:28:01 UTC
Indeed the test streams don't seem to work anymore, so no way to test for me either. DR decided to go for Flash streaming as far as I know :-(

Anyway maybe let's close this bug here, as the source material is no longer available...