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Nicolas
Asked: 2018-05-13 10:15:37 +0800 CST

IPTV streaming stopped working (e. g. in VLC, smplayer)

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recently I encountered that on my system our german IPTV RTP streams don't work anymore. It still works on other systems in the same network.

VLC error:

Ihre Eingabe konnte nicht geöffnet werden:
VLC kann die Medienadresse 'rtp://@239.35.20.59:10000' nicht öffnen. Für Details bitte im Fehlerprotokoll nachsehen.

VLC error log:

-- logger module started --
core: VLC wird mit dem Standard-Interface ausgeführt. Benutzen Sie 'cvlc', um VLC ohne Interface zu verwenden.
core error: socket bind error: Address already in use
core error: open of `rtp://@239.35.20.59:10000' failed

smplayer error:

Playing rtp://@239.35.20.59:10000.
STREAM_RTP, URL: rtp://@239.35.20.59:10000
Failed to connect to server
rtp_streaming_start failed
No stream found to handle url rtp://@239.35.20.59:10000

System properties:

me@mysystem ~ $ uname -a
Linux sesta10 4.13.0-39-generic #44~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 5 16:43:10 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
me@mysystem ~ $ lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description:    Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Release:    18.3
Codename:   sylvia
me@mysystem ~ $

System where it works:

me@othersystem:~$ uname -a
Linux server7even3 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02) x86_64 GNU/Linux
me@othersystem:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 9.4 (stretch)
Release:    9.4
Codename:   stretch
me@othersystem:~$

I really don't understand the error message of vlc, as to my understanding the remote address is a multicast (or something like that?), and cannot be in use therefore. Does it mean the local socket instead? But why should vlc choose a local socket that is in use already?

The smplayer error simply is wrong, because it works on other systems.

Any help, hint or different media player to try?

vlc video-streaming smplayer

1 Answers

  1. It works now!

    Things I did:

    1. restart the system
    2. installation of gnome-mplayer

    I didn't tried it again in vlc, before installing gnome-mplayer and cannot tell therefore if the restart fixed it already. With gnome-mplayer it worked instantly after installation. Then I tried vlc and smplayer and it worked as well.

    But I noticed that it doesn't work to play the same stream simultaneously in two different players!

    There is the same error message as before when trying this. So I assume, one of the players got stuck invisible in background before.

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