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[johnpalmer]

So...

I'm working at OSU, for a little bit less take-home than I was getting from unemployment. I'm going to have to live on a four-day paycheck for all of December. And I'm learning about multimedia streaming without the benefit of documentation.

Re: the last, as per usual, it *looks* like I have everything set up properly, but nothing is working, and I have no idea why.

After Chibi's surgery, I'm almost $3000 dollars in debt when I was willing to live with $2000. And I'd been hoping for a job that paid, at a minimum, about 20% more than I'm making. And I don't know if the job will ever turn full time, so it's entirely possible that I'm wasting both time and money by working there.

So I've been a bit depressed. And I've been coping, by which I mean "surviving", but it isn't easy.

The good news is that I've been able to keep busy, and not dwell on the things that bother me most, so I've been able to keep dipping downward, but never quite getting caught in a full blown depressive episode.

The bad news is that I've been out of it the past couple days, and I know right now that it's probably best that I don't try to catch up with my friends list.

Things aren't as bad as this post might make them seem, and I know I don't update that often anyway, so there's not much need for a "I might not be updating all that much" message, but that's the news of my life at the moment.

Comments

[laurarey.livejournal.com]

Yep, no problem.

So, VLC will act as the broadcaster and Darwin will reflect it to the user...are you getting any error messages at all? Or just...nothing streaming?

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

That's the funny thing.

VLC creates an SPD file, which I put in the Darwin server's "Movies" directory. I verify the server is working by connecting and picking up one of the sample movies (which I have to remember to rename to something shorter than "sample_h264_100kbit_movie_with_godawful_long_name.MP4" or whatever they name their movies.) Then I can verify that the stream is working by opening the SDP file as a file (i.e., "open file" not "open URL"). But when I connect to rtsp://localhost/sample(.spd) (with or without the extension), or rtsp://192.168.1.99/sample(.spd), I get a "not found" in Quicktime, and nothing at all in VLC. The request does show in Darwin's log of file requests, so I'm connecting to the server, and it's hearing my request.

I'm pretty sure the SDP file is okay, because it opens locally (and I have VLC playing to the display, and to the network, so I can see that the same stuff is playing in both locations)... but the RFC isn't written in newbiese. (I'm hitting that again this morning... maybe a few hours off has cleared my head. But I don't think it'll break stuff down as simply as I want it.)

I'm wondering if maybe I'm sending a stream that Darwin can't reflect... maybe it needs to be set up differently to be able to be reflected? VLC has a *lot* of options, and I don't know if I'm setting something wrong, or not setting something whose default isn't right.

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

I found part of an answer.

It will work if VLC and Darwin are on the same machine. It won't work if VLC and Darwin are on different machines.

I (FINALLY!!!!) found one reference that suggests VLC doesn't work remotely because Darwin sends a request and doesn't get an answer... Darwin is a stickler for etiquette. I've seen another suggestion that *maybe* if you set up a relay just right, it'll reflect.

[laurarey.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you made headway!