Re: [squid-users] Streaming video content (e.g. BBC news to flash based player) - always stops?

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_at_urlfilterdb.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 6:28 AM
> To: Karl Pielorz
> Cc: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] 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
>>
>>
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Received on Fri Jul 08 2011 - 15:48:27 MDT