Transferring a video file (.mp4) through Ethernet port.

[J.Hilk]

@Prakash08 no, it's on the heap and you actually never delete it, so it exists forever.

Maybe QVideoWidgets takes ownership of it? I would have to look that up

either way the core issue stays, you're trying to play data that is destroyed as soon as it's created

[Prakash08]

@ChrisW67 the video is 5 secs long. And how to give the condition in sender to code to disconnect the connection when its done sending data ..?

[Prakash08]

@J-Hilk the main issue is, "Error: failed to seek". this is the message i'm getting. what does this mean? how to solve this ? any idea ?

[Christian Ehrlicher]

@Prakash08 said in Transferring a video file (.mp4) through Ethernet port.:

how to solve this ? any idea ?

Fix your code - 4 people told you what's wrong...

[Prakash08]

@Christian-Ehrlicher I'm sorry, I did not get where the issue is, can you please elaborate, which part of code should be modified ?

[JonB]

@Christian-Ehrlicher said in Transferring a video file (.mp4) through Ethernet port.:

QBuffer buffer(&received_data);

How long does this object live?

@JonB said in Transferring a video file (.mp4) through Ethernet port.:

player is using &buffer as its buffer. Compare the lifetimes of player and buffer.

[ChrisW67]

@Prakash08 said in Transferring a video file (.mp4) through Ethernet port.:

And how to give the condition in sender to code to disconnect the connection when its done sending data ..?

When the sender runs out of file content, or send its entire in-memory buffer, then it should call close() on its socket. Exactly how that looks depends on your sender code.

[Prakash08]

@ChrisW67 how to send its in-memory buffer ? And here is the sender code ..

void MainWindow::send_video()
{
    qDebug()<<"Connected to Server:"<<socket->peerAddress()<<" on port:"<<socket->peerPort()<<" name:"<<socket->peerName();
    // QFile file("C:/Users/Intel/Pictures/sunset.png"); // Replace with the actual video path
    QFile file("C:/Users/Intel/Desktop/video_2.mp4");
    if (!file.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly)) {
        qDebug() << "Unable to open file:" << file.errorString();
        return;
    }

    while (!file.atEnd()) {
        QByteArray imageData = file.readAll(); // Read data in chunks
        socket->write(imageData); // Send data to server
        qDebug()<<" video data ..";
    }

    // QByteArray imageData = file.read(16955); // Read data in chunks
    // socket->write(imageData);

    qDebug()<<" video data sent..";
    file.close();
    socket->disconnectFromHost();
}

[Prakash08]

@JonB In the provided code , the player and buffer objects are created locally within the receiveVideo() function scope. Their lifetime is limited to the duration of the function execution.

[JonB]

@Prakash08
Sorry, but you're wrong. @Christian-Ehrlicher & I have both tried to point this out to you.

First of all, QMediaPlayer *player = new QMediaPlayer is a pointer to an allocated object on the heap. That means it persists until something deletes it. The fact that QMediaPlayer *player is itself a local variable is neither here nor there, when it goes out of scope that does not destroy the object it points to. That is quite different from QBuffer buffer(&received_data), which is a local stack variable, not a pointer to an object. That does get destroyed at the end of the if.

Secondly, player->setMedia(QMediaContent(), &buffer) means that player is using the stack buffer, so as soon as the if exits buffer is destroyed but the QMediaPlayer is still using it as its buffer. When you go player->play() at the end that only starts playing the video, it does not finish playing it. It carries on playing after the function exits. But it's reading from a buffer which has now been destroyed. Not good! Lucky it does not "crash". Your "Error:failed to seek" error may be from code trying to access it when it is no longer valid.

This is all standard C++ stuff.