Streaming From an nginx Server (HTTPS)

[richard-gravy]

Hello,

Client: mpv 0.39.0, Fedora 41 Linux (x86_64), vo=gpu-next, Wayland display server
Server: nginx 1.25.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Network: there is one hop (the router) between client and server, wired 1Gb connection all sides

Command line: mpv 'https://files/videos/Honk.mp4' (copy of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxgpKjuFczo, 67.4 MB)

Every time I try to stream this from my local server, it pauses almost dead on 50 seconds and then buffers for about 2 seconds, plays 0.5 seconds then repeats, etc.

The only way that I have been able to resolve this is to set --stream-buffer-size=32M or larger.

Is this expected, or is there likely a problem with my nginx configuration that's causing this behaviour?

[CounterPillow]

You should give use a --log-file, especially when using Fedora, because it's possible your playback is extremely broken due to using the default Fedora media libraries which use OpenH264, which is known to be buggy.