Performance with Wowza and Internet Explorer

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Posted: Wed, 2011-11-23 09:10 Reinhard Weber

Hi Team of Longtail!

I have troubles with using Wowza v3 Streaming Server in combination with Internet Explorer v8. Using the Longtail performance plugin the IE8 shows a huge number of dropped frames, firefox v8 and chrome v14 instead are working perfectly.

Please take a look to this comparision: http://195.3.97.59/browser.png

Is there a solution to solve this problem with IE8? Thanks for reading and possible replies.

Reinhard

Posted: Wed, 2011-11-23 15:23 Ethan LongTail

Please provide a link to where this is running.

Posted: Thu, 2011-11-24 03:48 Reinhard

Hi Ethan!

Unfortunatelly this is running in our company intranet, therefore it isn't possible to provide an external link. I'll try to 'clone' it to an public webserver asap.

Regards
Reinhard

Posted: Fri, 2011-11-25 05:22 Ethan LongTail

Thanks, please do!

Posted: Wed, 2012-01-11 17:09 Reinhard

I'm sorry, it took a long time ;) but now here is the public link:

http://195.3.97.59/stage/?streamid=longtail_demo&qm=true

Regards
Reinhard

Posted: Wed, 2012-01-11 20:00 Ethan LongTail

I can't even get this stream to play at all, in any browser. Please advise.

Posted: Thu, 2012-01-12 12:09 DaveT

Just looked, It plays fine for me. I do see some dropped frames in IE

Posted: Thu, 2012-01-12 14:07 Ethan LongTail

I just checked again in FF and the video just spins forever.

Posted: Thu, 2012-01-12 17:50 Reinhard

Ethan, please try again. Now the Wowza Streaming Server uses the port 443 instead of 1935. I also changed the port to 443 inside the source code of this sample page.

@Dave: Could you please do a comparison between IE and Chrome or Firefox? I get an absolute flat red line using these both browsers, IE instead shows a troubled sequence of the line and several seconds of lost frames.

Thanks for help!
Reinhard

Posted: Thu, 2012-01-12 19:29 Ethan LongTail

It works now. I am actually noting some stuttering though in FF9 as well as IE9.

Posted: Fri, 2012-01-13 12:09 Reinhard

Hi Ethan!

Good news, except the stuttering (more on IE8 than IE9). Unfortunately I'm not familiar with the internals of the player. I suspect it has something to do with the parameter <bufferlenght>. It takes no effect on any changes of this value. Currently it's set to 50 (seconds), in my opinion the streams plays much more before than the buffer is filled up...

Posted: Fri, 2012-01-13 14:06 Ethan LongTail

50 is way too high, can you try something like 5 or so?

Posted: Tue, 2012-01-17 06:09 Reinhard

I changed the value to 5 ...

Posted: Thu, 2012-01-26 12:03 Ethan LongTail

Does that make a difference for you?

Posted: Mon, 2012-02-06 03:34 Reinhard

Unfortunately not. With firefox and Chrome the stream is working, but using IE8 it's the same issue described at the top of this thread...

Posted: Mon, 2012-02-06 13:22 Ethan LongTail

Hmm, I can't get your link to load for me now?

Performance with Wowza and Internet Explorer

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