Quicktime Streaming with MPC-BE/LAV

[thrawnrulz68]

Hi guys,

I am using MPC-BE 1.5.1.2634 and .qtl Quicktime links are no longer working. This was working until recently. I have tried using both LAV (0.70.0.9) filters and the built-in MPC-BE filters. I primarily use LAV so maybe this is an issue on their end?

Is anyone else having this problem. Here are a bunch of links that contain .qtl files:

http://www.klux.org/stream/listenlive.qtl (audio)
https://www.streamlicensing.com/stations/cchits/play128.qtl (audio)
http://www.beethoven-radio.com/streams/beethovenradio.qtl (audio)
http://mams.rmit.edu.au/o7q7hndqwyjcz.qtl (video)
http://r.web.umkc.edu/rmpgf7/media/jbwo_ref.mov (video - when this was working, I had to rename to .qtl)

Please help!!

Thanks!

[clsid]

1) Install QuickTime
2) Use x86 version of MPC-BE/HC (because QuickTime is also x86)
3) Add qtl to QuickTime section of formats list in Options > Player > Formats
4) At the right side of the QuickTime entry in the formats list, change the rendering mode from DirectShow to QuickTime.
5) Download the file.

[v0lt]

MPC-BE does not support external QuickTime for some time.

[thrawnrulz68]

Yeah Quicktime and RealMedia architectures are no longer supported but the formats themselves work quite well using LAV. Even the .qtl links worked until recently. Would it be possible to restore this?

[v0lt]

@thrawnrulz68
Write in LAV Filters topic (https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=156191). Specify from which version worked and from which version the problem appeared.

[clsid]

Parsing such link files have been disabled by default in FFmpeg since January:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=commitdiff;h=65d29dd274a302131e2e4bc6d2b1eca4a093900c

[thrawnrulz68]

I tried some older versions of LAV but am getting the same results. Perhaps that makes sense based on what clsid said...?

The third link seems to now be working if saved first.

clsid, is there a workaround of some kind? Can we tell what is happening with the last link? It loads the video but starts at the end and does not play.

As shown in these tests, Windows Media and Real are still working (even with multiple streams in the playlist; seeking also works): http://r.web.umkc.edu/rmpgf7/421p.htm

[clsid]

Looking at MPC-HC code, it uses QuickTime for opening .qtl files. This only works in x86 version and obviously requires QuickTime. FFmpeg (and thus also LAV Filters) does not support such files. Only proper .mov files.