Hello All,
 
I'm somewhat new to Red5, as well as video streaming in general, and
I've been experiencing a problem that I can't seem to figure out.
 
The problem is that a small percentage of our FLVs are hanging as a
result of the buffer emptying, and not refilling and resuming the video.
What happens is, when I trace the buffer length in my flash player, Red5
appears to be maintaining an acceptable buffer length for a period of
time, and then all of a sudden the buffer diminishes to .001 and never
recovers, causing the video to hang, and never resume.  The weird part
about this, is that it only happens when I have the setBufferTime() set
to 5 or greater. When I set the buffer time to be below 5, everything is
fine, and I have no problems. It seems kind of strange that a smaller
buffer length is making the problem disappear.
 
It would be easy enough to just set the buffer time in my flash player
to something less than 5, but then there is a chance that slower
connections will never be able to view the video. Could it be caused by
the FLV, my flash player, or Red5?  If there is any Red5 logs I can look
at, I'm not sure where or how to get them.
 
I'm currently running Red5 v0.6.2, and using oflaDemo. If I need to
include the .FLA for my video player and the FLV, I would be happy to do
that. I've included a link below where you can see what is happening.
This particular video's buffer empties at about 7 seconds in and hangs.
Like I mentioned above, I have setBufferTime() set at 5.
 
http://media.lancasteronline.com/flash/streamed/smallscreen.php?id=110
<blocked::http://media.lancasteronline.com/flash/streamed/smallscreen.ph
p?id=110> 
 
Thanks in advance for any help that can be provided here.
 
Chris Maurer 
 
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