Web content will not stream

[chocolateboy]

..and SUCCESS.

Cool!

[smokingmango]

Ok i have now gone full circle from where i started...First it was data corrupted...then it was the black screen...now i am back to data is corrupted...
I made sure that MEncoder web was first onthe list in the video web streaming Engines under transocding settings...Here are my files again....

Just for a FYI here is the link i am trying to stream from
http://fb1.fancast.com/rss/95907.xml

[chocolateboy]

Now it's using MEncoder instead of PMSEncoder:

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Starting C:\Program Files (x86)\PS3 Media Server\win32\mencoder.exe

This means it's not picking up the mencoder_path setting. As I said before, PMS is probably not using the PMS.conf you posted.

[smokingmango]

I went though and searched my whole pc and didnt find another PMS file.....i ran a cleaner on my machine and didnt find anything...Can i delete the pms file and will it recreate a new one?

[chocolateboy]

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5301&start=0

[smokingmango]

Ok checking everything out making sure all is good...but still coming up short. I searched my whole machine in every place i could find, even using a search application and could not find another PMS.conf. I guess i shouldve said i am also running PMS 1.20.409. I find it so much better than the others.
Attached is my debug file this time i added a screen shot of my settings as well
The video will load up, and be a black screen then it will come back saying data is corrupted...Not sure what is going on...I searched all over for another pms...woiuld it be b/c i am using beta?

[chocolateboy]

You're trying to play a web page (HTML):

C:\Program Files (x86)\PMSEncoder\pmsencoder.exe http://www.fancast.com/tv/Kitchen-Night ... 232/videos
...
Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported

Feeds need to be in Media RSS format. That feed isn't.

[Razzzhead]

This is my first post, please excuse any breech of etiquete.
I have Windows XP SP3, Java Version 6 update 20, PS3 slim with latest firmware over 100 Mbit LAN.

I have at last managed to stream web content, but I'm not sure if the system is stable. I had no success with VideoLan Web streaming so I tried the PMSEncoder method which I now have got to work using the following method:-

Upgrade PMS version to 1.20.409.
Latest version of PMSEncoder 0.70.0.21
replace C:\Program Files\PMSEncoder\res\mencoder.exe (which from chocolateboy's package was version Sherpya-SVN-r29851-4.2.5)
with a copy of the one from C:\Program Files\PS3 Media Server\win32\mencoder.exe (which is version Sherpya-SVN-r30369-4.2.5)

I can stream a variety of web content as well as some of the example URLs in chocolateboy's web.conf.

The problem is after changing videostream.Web streams the performance was degraded each time. I realised that the C:\Program Files\PMSEncoder\res\mencoder.exe process was not only remaining in memory soaking up resources, but was also continuing to stream from the internet, soaking up bandwidth. At each change of stream a new mencoder.exe process was invoked, so after changing streams say 5 times, there were 6 instances of mencoder.exe running. I checked that Enhanced multicore support for H264 HD content was not active in case that was the reason. The worrying thing is the mencoder.exe instances and resource / bandwidth use were not killed when exiting PMS - they had to be killed manually from task manager.

I believe the problem may not exist with videofeed.Web feeds as long as the content is allowed to finish, for example:-

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2010-05-09 17:51:00: 960: pmsencoder 0.70 (MSWin32)
2010-05-09 17:51:00: 960: path: C:\PROGRA~1\PMSENC~1\pmsencoder.exe
2010-05-09 17:51:00: 960: argv: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8jfhx1rwlE&feature=youtube_gdata -prefer-ipv4 -nocache -quiet -oac lavc -of lavf -lavfopts format=dvd -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vbitrate=4096:threads=2:acodec=ac3:abitrate=128 -vf harddup -ofps 24000/1001 -o \\.\pipe\mencoder1273441860075
2010-05-09 17:51:00: 960: loading config: C:/PROGRA~1/PMSENC~1/res/pmsencoder.yml
2010-05-09 17:51:00: 960: config file version: 0.70
2010-05-09 17:51:00: 960: setting $context to PMS
2010-05-09 17:51:00: 960: setting $uri to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8jfhx1rwlE&feature=youtube_gdata
2010-05-09 17:51:00: 960: matched profile: PMS
2010-05-09 17:51:00: 960: removing -quiet
2010-05-09 17:51:00: 960: adding -quiet
2010-05-09 17:51:00: 960: matched profile: Web
2010-05-09 17:51:00: 960: adding -cache 16384
2010-05-09 17:51:00: 960: removing -nocache
2010-05-09 17:51:00: 960: setting -ofps to 25
2010-05-09 17:51:00: 960: setting -vf to harddup
2010-05-09 17:51:00: 960: setting $video_id to Z8jfhx1rwlE
2010-05-09 17:51:00: 960: matched profile: YouTube
2010-05-09 17:51:01: 960: setting $t to vjVQa1PpcFOF_4qSqNGZS7oK8Y2hZJhDPyjj5ziRhqs=
2010-05-09 17:51:02: 960: setting $uri to http://www.youtube.com/get_video?fmt=22&video_id=Z8jfhx1rwlE&t=vjVQa1PpcFOF_4qSqNGZS7oK8Y2hZJhDPyjj5ziRhqs=
2010-05-09 17:51:02: 960: exec: C:/PROGRA~1/PMSENC~1/res/mencoder.exe http://www.youtube.com/get_video?fmt=22&video_id=Z8jfhx1rwlE&t=vjVQa1PpcFOF_4qSqNGZS7oK8Y2hZJhDPyjj5ziRhqs= -prefer-ipv4 -oac lavc -of lavf -lavfopts format=dvd -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vbitrate=4096:threads=2:acodec=ac3:abitrate=128 -vf harddup -ofps 25 -o \\.\pipe\mencoder1273441860075 -quiet -cache 16384
2010-05-09 17:56:24: 960: ok

You can see mencoder.exe was invoked at 17:51:02 and the feed finished with "ok" at 17:56:24. I am assuming the current memencoder.exe instance was killed at that point.

In the following videostream.web example, there is no corresponding "ok" at the change of stream so a new instance of mencoder.exe was invoked leaving the previous instance to run:-

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2010-05-09 19:00:31: 1068: pmsencoder 0.70 (MSWin32)
2010-05-09 19:00:31: 1068: path: C:\PROGRA~1\PMSENC~1\pmsencoder.exe
2010-05-09 19:00:31: 1068: argv: http://cctv.ws/7/BBC1 -prefer-ipv4 -nocache -quiet -oac lavc -of lavf -lavfopts format=dvd -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vbitrate=4096:threads=2:acodec=ac3:abitrate=128 -vf harddup -ofps 24000/1001 -o \\.\pipe\mencoder1273446030472
2010-05-09 19:00:31: 1068: loading config: C:/PROGRA~1/PMSENC~1/res/pmsencoder.yml
2010-05-09 19:00:31: 1068: config file version: 0.70
2010-05-09 19:00:31: 1068: setting $context to PMS
2010-05-09 19:00:31: 1068: setting $uri to http://cctv.ws/7/BBC1
2010-05-09 19:00:31: 1068: matched profile: PMS
2010-05-09 19:00:31: 1068: removing -quiet
2010-05-09 19:00:31: 1068: adding -quiet
2010-05-09 19:00:31: 1068: matched profile: Web
2010-05-09 19:00:31: 1068: adding -cache 16384
2010-05-09 19:00:31: 1068: removing -nocache
2010-05-09 19:00:31: 1068: setting -ofps to 25
2010-05-09 19:00:31: 1068: setting -vf to harddup
2010-05-09 19:00:31: 1068: exec: C:/PROGRA~1/PMSENC~1/res/mencoder.exe http://cctv.ws/7/BBC1 -prefer-ipv4 -oac lavc -of lavf -lavfopts format=dvd -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vbitrate=4096:threads=2:acodec=ac3:abitrate=128 -vf harddup -ofps 25 -o \\.\pipe\mencoder1273446030472 -quiet -cache 16384

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2010-05-09 19:03:17: 5420: pmsencoder 0.70 (MSWin32)
2010-05-09 19:03:17: 5420: path: C:\PROGRA~1\PMSENC~1\pmsencoder.exe
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Is there something I'm doing wrong or is this a bug?

[smokingmango]

Ok so i need to make this into a RSS....but the only issue i am having is i dont know the file extention of any of the videos... I have tried differant things to find out what the video extention and failing. COul di still use the .xml file and stream the media or do i need the video file extention?

[chocolateboy]

is this a bug?

Yes, it's a bug in PMS. You can vote for this issue if you want it to be fixed, and/or vote for this issue to release the next version of PMSEncoder (which mitigates this issue) from jail.