Problem: After 24-48 hours of the encoder and server running successfully, new clients will only buffer content, not play it. When using silverlight, I just get a "Buffering..." message with a black video window. but, if I open the web console in firefox, it is successfully downloading segments...
[15:00:13.075] GET http://hntrswdsestv.fcps.edu/WHWELive/WHWELive.isml/QualityLevels(800000)/Fragments(video=1821416399332) [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 15ms]
[15:00:13.180] GET http://hntrswdsestv.fcps.edu/WHWELive/WHWELive.isml/QualityLevels(48000)/Fragments(audio=1821261322180) [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 0ms]
[15:00:15.159] GET http://hntrswdsestv.fcps.edu/WHWELive/WHWELive.isml/QualityLevels(800000)/Fragments(video=1821436419332) [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 0ms]
[15:00:17.154] GET http://hntrswdsestv.fcps.edu/WHWELive/WHWELive.isml/QualityLevels(800000)/Fragments(video=1821456439332) [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 10ms]
[15:00:19.152] GET http://hntrswdsestv.fcps.edu/WHWELive/WHWELive.isml/QualityLevels(800000)/Fragments(video=1821476459332) [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 5ms]
[15:00:21.118] GET http://hntrswdsestv.fcps.edu/WHWELive/WHWELive.isml/QualityLevels(800000)/Fragments(video=1821496479332) [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 10ms]
On my iPad, playing the video gives me a black screen (even tho it says "Live")
If I go into "\\hntrswdsestv.fcps.edu\C$\inetpub\media\archives\Default Web Site\WHWELive\WHWELive-isml\2012-10-01-16-24-15-885"
I can see the segment folders being created, filled, and deleted.
Downloading a .TS file, I can successfully play it with VLC.
I see no errors in my Event Log
If I stop my encoder, restart the publishing point, and start the encoder again, it starts to work again.
Setup:
Encoder: Microsoft Expressions Encoder Pro 4 SP2 is encoding a HD-SDI input using GPU encoding
Server: Windows 7 SP 1 running IIS 7.5 with IIS Media Services 4.1
Clients: SmoothStreamingPlayer.xap (Silverlight) and iPad2 w/ iOS 6
Any advice?
(I work in a school and we'd like use this to stream our morning news show and silent dismissal every day)
Live Publishing Point is set to:
File name: WHWELive.isml
Title: Hunters Woods WHWE
Estimated Duration: 01:00:00
Live Source Type: Push
Advanced Settings
Allow Client Connections
Enable DVR for recent content (5 minute window)
Start Publishing point automatically upon first client request
Number of Lookahead fragments : 2
Mobile Devices:
Enable Output to Apple Mobile Devices
Segment Length : 10
Max bitrate: 3100
Do not enable iOS 3.0