maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 199386] multimedia/livestreamer slow start up mplayer/mplayer2 on some streaming video.

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Bug 199386: multimedia/livestreamer slow start up mplayer/mplayer2 on some
streaming video.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199386



--- Description ---
Mplayer took 20s. up to 5 min. to start some video stream while vlc started
same stream immediately, mplayer2 can't start some stream even after 5 minutes.
VLC and Mplayer/Mplayer2 from official FreeBSD pkg repo.

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--- Comment #1 from ***@gmail.com ---
(In reply to sasamotikomi from comment #0)
I tried use difference size of -cache or -n, nothing changed but I think
problem reproduced only with https:// stream, http:// start fine.

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--- Comment #2 from ***@gmail.com ---
(In reply to sasamotikomi from comment #1)
Problem not with https:// only 50~60 https vs 30~40 http.

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Thomas Zander <***@FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Thomas Zander <***@FreeBSD.org> ---
Again, please provide a concrete example (e.g. complete command line that we
can use for testing). If you want someone to fix those problems, you have make
it easy to reproduce.

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Juergen Lock <***@FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Juergen Lock <***@FreeBSD.org> ---
Hmm. I'm inclined to think this issue is with mplayer/mplayer2 since
livestreamer just passes the stream to the player on stdin...

I tested:

livestreamer http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-hd-tv worst -p mplayer

and indeed mplayer took > 10s to startup, mplayer2 didn't even start at all
("[cli][info] Player closed"), while -p mpv or -p ffplay like the default of
vlc started immediately.

And now I tried mplayer2 with -v and got:

% livestreamer http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-hd-tv worst -v -p mplayer
[cli][info] Found matching plugin ustreamtv for URL
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-hd-tv
[cli][info] Available streams: 240p, 240p_alt_akamai, 720p+ (best),
720p+_alt_akamai, mobile_240p (worst)
[cli][info] Opening stream: mobile_240p (hls)
[cli][info] Starting player: mplayer
MPlayer2 UNKNOWN (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
Cannot open file '/home/nox/.mplayer/input.conf': No such file or directory
Failed to open /home/nox/.mplayer/input.conf.
Cannot open file '/usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf': No such file or directory
Failed to open /usr/local/etc/mplayer/input.conf.

Playing -.
Reading from stdin...
Detected file format: MPEG-TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream) (libavformat)
Assertion v>0 && v<=(1 ? 32 : 16) failed at libavutil/mem.c:226


MPlayer interrupted by signal 6 in module: demux_open
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.
[cli][info] Player closed
[cli][info] Stream ended
%

..so it clearly looks like mplayer2 not liking that particular stream.

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--- Comment #5 from Juergen Lock <***@FreeBSD.org> ---
..and mplayer with the same stream and -v got:

% livestreamer http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-hd-tv worst -v -p mplayer
[cli][info] Found matching plugin ustreamtv for URL
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-hd-tv
[cli][info] Available streams: 240p, 240p_alt_akamai, 720p+ (best),
720p+_alt_akamai, mobile_240p (worst)
[cli][info] Opening stream: mobile_240p (hls)
[cli][info] Starting player: mplayer
MPlayer SVN-r37386-snapshot-3.4.1 (C) 2000-2015 MPlayer Team

Playing -.
Reading from stdin...
libavformat version 56.28.100 (internal)
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
TS file format detected.
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
VIDEO H264(pid=256) AUDIO AAC(pid=257) NO SUBS (yet)! PROGRAM N. 1
Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
Seek failed
FPS seems to be: 30.000000
Load subtitles in ./
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 56.33.100 (internal)
Selected video codec: [ffh264] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, floatle, 0.0 kbit/0.00% (ratio: 0->352800)
Selected audio codec: [ffaac] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg AAC (MPEG-2/MPEG-4 Audio))
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 44100Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
Movie-Aspect is 1.77:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
[..]

so it clearly looks like the issue is with the players not livestreamer itself.

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--- Comment #6 from ***@bsdjunk.com ---
Could you test if mpv has the same issues or fixes your problem? Not really a
fix but we can then guarantee x the player is at fault.

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--- Comment #7 from ***@gmail.com ---
(In reply to chris from comment #6)
Sorry, I can't use mpv because it has some issue with i386:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198758

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--- Comment #8 from Thomas Zander <***@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to sasamotikomi from comment #7)

You could build one yourself from ports without OPENCV.

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--- Comment #9 from Thomas Zander <***@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to sasamotikomi from comment #7)

The mpv issue should be resolved by now.
Could you check if this is still reproducible?

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--- Comment #10 from ***@gmail.com ---
(In reply to Thomas Zander from comment #9)
Mpv and mplayer2 now work fine for me but mplayer still isn't.