Omxplayer ends early

[basvdheijden]

Omxplayer always ends early (about 40-60%) when using certain streams as input.

mkfifo /tmp/stream
wget -O /tmp/stream [URL]
omxplayer -r /tmp/stream

Any idea?

Apparently torarin already fixed the ([issue 23 (https://github.com/huceke/pull/24))

I don't know the ties between the different omxplayer repo's, but has this commit been merged back into popcornmix/omxplayer/master yet?

[popcornmix]

This branch contains every commit from huceke.

Does it only fail when using a fifo, or will the same file stop early when played as a normal file?

Are you sure your internet download speed is sufficient. If the fifo runs empty, it will probably look like an EOF, and the stream will quit.

[basvdheijden]

I'm positive my download speed is sufficient. Problem is: I can't play the stream as a normal file. omxplayer only works when using the fifo trick.

Is there another method I could try?

[popcornmix]

Do you have a link to an online file that behaves like this?

[blakee]

Here's another test case for what I believe to be the same issue. I've compiled omxplayer myself from git master, and am using http://db.tt/hDoOG5KT to test playback. On the 2 systems I've tested (both Raspbian minimal installs) the song is played fine, but omxplayer doesn't terminate when the song finishes. In this case there is a discrepancy in the duration reported of the mp3: mediainfo shows it as 2m1s CBR, omxplayer --info shows 00:02:05.98.

Please let me know if you need debug logs.

[basvdheijden]

@popcornmix: It's not too easy to give you a direct URL, as the stream URL's are session based and can only be requested once. I've tested it with a small bash script though instead of running the commands within Node.js and it seems to work now, although I have to test it a couple of times to be sure (run a video with a length exceeding 1 hr)

Then it's probably a node child_process related issue instead of omxplayer related. Thanks for the quick replies though.