Bug#734335: libav-tools: avserver does not work

[Dima Kogan]

Package: libav-tools
Version: 6:9.10-1
Severity: normal
Hi.

I'm unable to get avserver to do anything useful. I know that this is
no longer supported upstream, but even the most basic usage fails for
me. If it isn't expected to work at all, maybe we shouldn't be shipping
this in Debian.

I run avserver with no arguments, using the maintainer-supplied
avserver.conf. Then I feed the server with avconv:

 avconv -i video.mov http://localhost:8090/feed1.ffm

This is supposed to play video.mov into the feeder, and I should be able
to stream this through the network. Things look mostly OK. There is a
warning:

 Feed '/tmp/feed1.ffm' stream number does not match registered feed

I have no idea if this is significant. After this, when I try to stream,
the web server reports that the streams exist, but no data can be
received.

I played with various options, but have not been able to get past this.

Thanks.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
armel

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libav-tools depends on:
ii  dpkg                   1.17.1
ii  libavcodec54           6:9.10-1
ii  libavdevice53          6:9.10-1
ii  libavfilter3           6:9.10-1
ii  libavformat54          6:9.10-1
ii  libavresample1         6:9.10-1
ii  libavutil52            6:9.10-1
ii  libbz2-1.0             1.0.6-5
ii  libc6                  2.17-97
ii  libgnutls26            2.12.23-8
ii  libgsm1                1.0.13-4
ii  libmp3lame0            3.99.5+repack1-3
ii  libopenjpeg2           1.3+dfsg-4.6
ii  libopus0               1.1-1
ii  librtmp0               2.4+20121230.gitdf6c518-1
ii  libschroedinger-1.0-0  1.0.11-2
ii  libsdl1.2debian        1.2.15-5
ii  libspeex1              1.2~rc1-7
ii  libswscale2            6:9.10-1
ii  libtheora0             1.1.1+dfsg.1-3.1
ii  libva1                 1.2.1-2
ii  libvorbis0a            1.3.2-1.3
ii  libvorbisenc2          1.3.2-1.3
ii  libvpx1                1.2.0-2
ii  libx264-133            2:0.133.2339+git585324f-2
ii  libxvidcore4           2:1.3.2-9
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

libav-tools recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libav-tools suggests:
pn  frei0r-plugins  <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/avserver.conf changed:
Port 8090
BindAddress 0.0.0.0
MaxHTTPConnections 2000
MaxClients 1000
MaxBandwidth 1000
CustomLog -
<Feed hank1.ffm>
File /tmp/hank1.ffm
FileMaxSize 5M
Launch avconv -f video4linux2 -framerate 1 -video_size 640x352 -input_format mjpeg -i /dev/video0
ACL allow 127.0.0.1
</Feed>
<Stream henry.mpg>
Feed hank1.ffm
Format mpeg
VideoBitRate 64
VideoBufferSize 40
VideoFrameRate 2
VideoSize 640x352
VideoGopSize 12
NoAudio
</Stream>
<Stream henry.mjpg>
Feed hank1.ffm
Format mpjpeg
VideoFrameRate 2
VideoIntraOnly
NoAudio
Strict -1
</Stream>
<Stream henry.jpg>
Feed hank1.ffm
Format jpeg
VideoFrameRate 1
VideoIntraOnly
VideoSize 640x352
NoAudio
Strict -1
</Stream>
<Stream stat.html>
Format status
ACL allow localhost
ACL allow 192.168.0.0 192.168.255.255
</Stream>
<Redirect index.html>
URL http://www.libav.org/
</Redirect>


-- no debconf information