Well, I still would like to know the URL because I like to observe
which set of URLs this eventually triggers.
I block with a URL filter some tracker URLs: URLs which are
unnecessary for showing video content but show the content provider
what you are doing. Sometimes these trackers cause hickups.
I also have occasional Youtube problems but think that in
my case the international bandwidth between Brazil and the USA
is too small. Other times, I do a refresh on the video
and the video is played from a different youtube server
and is fast. This makes me believe that some videoservers
may sometimes be overloaded.
Marcus
Bobby wrote:
I've noticed this with different media streams as well. From youtube to google; the video often will start normally and then just hang like Karl explained, seems to be buffering but never recovers.
I would also be interested to know if anyone has encountered and found a solution to this issue.
BMatz
-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus Kool [mailto:marcus.kool@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 6:28 AM
To: Karl Pielorz
Cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Streaming video content (e.g. BBC news to flash based player) - always stops?
I live in Brazil and sometimes watch BBC videos using Squid without issues.
Can you give a link to an example URL which causes problems ?
Marcus
Karl Pielorz wrote:
Hi,
We've tried running a number of Squid versions (from 2.7.9 through to
3.2.0.9) but they all seem to suffer when streaming video content - most
notably from the BBC site in the UK.
Unfortunately, afaik this content isn't available outside the UK (but
the US site might have content streamed in a similar manner).
Videos will start, but they stop after a random amount of time (and the
'player' on the client displays the 'rebuffering circle' - but never
starts again).
Is anyone here using Squid - and able to successfully play content from
say news.bbc.co.uk?
Anyone got any pointers what it could be?
Accesses in the logs show as a stream of:
"
1310125310.161 561 172.16.20.22 TCP_MISS/200 272 POST
http://82.197.67.173:1935/idle/mKfmdz02zSLeGJSL/269 -
HIER_DIRECT/82.197.67.173 application/x-fcs
1310125311.256 565 172.16.20.22 TCP_MISS/200 272 POST
http://82.197.67.173:1935/idle/mKfmdz02zSLeGJSL/270 -
HIER_DIRECT/82.197.67.173 application/x-fcs
"
These seem to continue, even when the player has 'stopped'.
Any pointers?
Thanks,
-Karl
