Opened 11 years ago

Closed 4 years ago

#11283 closed Bug Report - General (Won't Fix)

heavy network load when viewing large (> 1Gbyte) MP4 video

Reported by: willem@… Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone: unknown
Component: MythTV - Video Playback Version: 0.25.3
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description

When watching a MP4 video with mythfrontend running on a different system than mythbackend, I observe heavy network traffic and a stuttering display. My network is 100Mbit, and it is completely loaded: ca. 10 Mbyte/second down, ca. 200kByte/sec up.

This does not happen when the video is smaller than 1 Gbyte. In fact, I have a video in two parts, each of which is less than 1 Gbyte and plays fine. When I combine the parts with

mencoder part1.avi part2.avi -oac copy -ovc copy -o total.avi

viewing the resulting file (total.avi) results in the heavy network load.

The characteristics of the video:

ID_VIDEO_ID=0
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME0=Software
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE0=MEncoder\ svn\ r34540\ \(Ubuntu\),\ built\ with\ gcc-4.6
ID_CLIP_INFO_N=1
ID_FILENAME=total.avi
ID_DEMUXER=avi
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=FMP4
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=1816640
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=704
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=386
ID_VIDEO_FPS=25.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=85
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=126136
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_START_TIME=0.00
ID_LENGTH=8379.68
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=0
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffodivx
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=126136
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=ffmp3float
ID_EXIT=EOF

I have to add that the effect present for all video's larger than 1Gbyte, for example the video with the following characteristics gives the same problem:

ID_VIDEO_ID=0
ID_AUDIO_ID=1
ID_CLIP_INFO_NAME0=Software
ID_CLIP_INFO_VALUE0=MEncoder\ svn\ r34540\ \(Ubuntu\),\ built\ with\ gcc-4.6
ID_CLIP_INFO_N=1
ID_FILENAME=test2.avi
ID_DEMUXER=avi
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=MP42
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=3077192
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=1024
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=416
ID_VIDEO_FPS=25.000
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=85
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=213920
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_START_TIME=0.00
ID_LENGTH=5084.20
ID_SEEKABLE=1
ID_CHAPTERS=0
ID_VIDEO_CODEC=ffmp42
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=213920
ID_AUDIO_RATE=48000
ID_AUDIO_NCH=2
ID_AUDIO_CODEC=ffmp3float
ID_EXIT=EOF

Something to do with RIFF chunks at 1023 Mbyte?

Regards,

Willem Vermin

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Change History (8)

Changed 11 years ago by willem@…

Attachment: frontendversion added

output of mythfrontend --version

Changed 11 years ago by willem@…

Attachment: backendversion added

output of mythbackend --version

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by willem@…

I forgot to assign the ticket: I guess this one is for robertm

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by stuartm

Owner: set to danielk
Status: newassigned

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by paulh <mythtv@…>

Replying to willem@…:

I forgot to assign the ticket: I guess this one is for robertm

Where have you been he left the project ages ago.

Something to do with RIFF chunks at 1023 Mbyte?

No idea what RIFF chunks are but they sound painful can you get ointment for them?

Are you using NFS to access the files or Myth's built in streaming?

comment:4 in reply to:  3 Changed 11 years ago by Willem Vermin <willem@…>

Replying to paulh <mythtv@…>:

Replying to willem@…:

I forgot to assign the ticket: I guess this one is for robertm

Where have you been he left the project ages ago.

Something to do with RIFF chunks at 1023 Mbyte?

No idea what RIFF chunks are but they sound painful can you get ointment for them?

Are you using NFS to access the files or Myth's built in streaming?

No, I am not using nfs, I use the backend as streamer. The video is nowehere in the filesystem of the client. Btw: if available via NFS on the client, mplayer plays the file without problems.

It seems to be connected with the RIFF chunks, whatever they are....

If I convert my video:

mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -noodm in.avi -o out.avi

the resulting out.avi file can be played without problems.

comment:5 Changed 8 years ago by Stuart Auchterlonie

Owner: danielk deleted
Status: assignednew

comment:6 Changed 4 years ago by Stuart Auchterlonie

Resolution: Won't Fix
Status: newclosed

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