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VLC pluging and Firefox logging

lesSheppardlesSheppard Members
edited November -1 in Sahi - Open Source
Hi,

I've been using Sahi for a year or so now (mainly with my previous company, and now in my new role) and I've always got on very well with it. However I'm starting to get intermittent problems when running Sahi and using the VLC (video streaming) plugin.

I am trying to simulate a user changing TV channels via a web page, and when the video streaming is switched off, I can change channels indefinitely using my Sahi script, but as soon as I switch the streaming on, my script may be able to change channel 5 / 10 times before the page freezes (I can manually change the channel as many times as I like, so I don't think the issue is with our web-app).

We are running in a Linux environment on Firefox, and if I view the log output from Firefox (if I run firefox frmo the command line the data is printed to stdout), I get masses of debug and warning data coming back from VLC (we're trying to switch this logging off without much luck at the moment).

Is it possible that this log output is interfering with Sahi / overloading it and causing the proxy to freeze the web-page?

Cheers,
Les.
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  • narayannarayan Administrators
    Hi Les,

    Good to see you on the forums and to know that have carried Sahi into your new role.

    Do you get the same VLC firefox logs without using Sahi Proxy? I am wondering if Sahi is causing VLC to throw those errors.

    Regards,
    Narayan
  • lesSheppardlesSheppard Members
    Hi Narayan,

    Thanks for the reply. The VLC logging was coming through with or without Sahi. Though one of the developers here has switched VLC logging off, re-built and re-distributed, and all is working well now :)

    >>Good to see you on the forums and to know that have carried Sahi into your new role.
    I think it's a great test tool - as with any automation tool some investment is needed to setup the environment etc, but once that's done the amount of additional testing we managed to do at my previous company and the amount of time it saved a huge amount of time :)

    Cheers,
    Les.
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