Restart Computer For Incoming Connection

[tigerbeer]

Hi guys,

Its not a major problem but one that I would like to settle cause it gets really frustrating. I have a server at home that does video streaming for me at home from video captured off two webcams. And I have a certain media player that does the streaming for me here in the office. Start the computer in the office in the morning and it connects fine. Streaming the video from home. After sometime, it disconnects. No specific time. Can be 5 minutes, can be 2 or 3 hours.

When I restart my computer here in the office and relaunch that application, it connect to the house server fine. So basically it is the computer here that needs restarting in order for the streaming application to work properly. Something to do with ports? There is no specific port forward settings in the application. Nevertheless i opened up a port for this application in MS Firewall and the router.

Any ideas what needs to be done???

The application in concern is Streaming Media Player. Number 2 on downloads.

thanks in advance everyone.

TB..

[Guest Reimar]

Hi guys,

Its not a major problem but one that I would like to settle cause it gets really frustrating. I have a server at home that does video streaming for me at home from video captured off two webcams. And I have a certain media player that does the streaming for me here in the office. Start the computer in the office in the morning and it connects fine. Streaming the video from home. After sometime, it disconnects. No specific time. Can be 5 minutes, can be 2 or 3 hours.

When I restart my computer here in the office and relaunch that application, it connect to the house server fine. So basically it is the computer here that needs restarting in order for the streaming application to work properly. Something to do with ports? There is no specific port forward settings in the application. Nevertheless i opened up a port for this application in MS Firewall and the router.

Any ideas what needs to be done???

The application in concern is Streaming Media Player. Number 2 on downloads.

thanks in advance everyone.

TB..

Why you didn't use IP Cameras, connected to an Router with Web Management and you even don't need to run 2 computer at the same time?!

Cheers.

[tigerbeer]

Why you didn't use IP Cameras, connected to an Router with Web Management and you even don't need to run 2 computer at the same time?!

Cheers.

Reimar, it was a really cheap set up. I run 2 USB cams on to 1 computer. Then run the computer using it as a server. IP cameras are still on the high price. My set up with USB wire extensions cost me less than THB1,000. I don't mind the CPU running all day long. Will figure out the RAM or processor later if it burns off ...

what i need to know is how to settle the problem this side in the office. why do i need to restart the computer here to receive the video streaming? at home everything is fine and computer there does not need a restart.

TB..

[tigerbeer]

can someone help me here please?? there must be a way to settle this issue

[Guest Reimar]

can someone help me here please?? there must be a way to settle this issue

What's about your router at that side? Is the router capable to transmit Video Streams?

[Prasert]

I've been experimenting with unreal streaming and VLC these last weeks. Unreal streaming is basically aimed at multicast traffic and uses a proprietary protocol. I'm not impressed by it's performance compared to VLC.

VLC is not just a player, it can also be used to unicast and multicast streams!

Maybe you should give VLC a try? It's pretty well documented (www.videolan.org) and uses open standards, so streams can be played with several media players.

[tigerbeer]

I've been experimenting with unreal streaming and VLC these last weeks. Unreal streaming is basically aimed at multicast traffic and uses a proprietary protocol. I'm not impressed by it's performance compared to VLC.

VLC is not just a player, it can also be used to unicast and multicast streams!

Maybe you should give VLC a try? It's pretty well documented (www.videolan.org) and uses open standards, so streams can be played with several media players.

hi Prasert,

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Are you saying that i should try to use VLC as a server at home?? or to use VLC to play the stream through usage of dyndns.org. At home i got Media Server and Live Server running from Unreal. Here I use Streaming Media player to play the video stream pointed to xxxx.homedns.org:5119.

It connects initially but after it drops, i have to restart the computer and it connects again. So its gotta be something to do with WinXP?

Can VLC play a stream the way Streaming Media PLayer does?

TB..

[blackkopee]

i guess port is not update on client side. (guess again you are using ddns) you might need some program to update the port

[tigerbeer]

i guess port is not update on client side. (guess again you are using ddns) you might need some program to update the port

i already have an update program to send in the new IP add whenever it changes. The problem seems to be more on this side, the viewing part rather than the server part.

[Guest Reimar]

Had you adjusted the Firewall and the Router for the ports in using? If you use IIS you may also need to configure the IIS as well!

Cheers.

[Prasert]

Keep in mind that the player will do an IP lookup the moment you start the player.

If your line at home drops and reconnects, the IP address will change and the stream is interrupted anyway. For a unicast stream this means you have to restart the player (even if the IP address stays the same).

So see if you can find any time-similarity in adsl-reconnects and your player stopping.