[streaming] Q: what does CPU do when just streaming?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le jeudi 21 août 2008 22:17:26 Anthony Loiseau, vous avez écrit :
> Since ages, I thought streaming was just read a file and provide it to
> an UDP socket. In this case, it should not be CPU intensive at all.

UDP is not a streaming protocol to start with. VLC needs to demultiplex the 
input file, which takes time and memory, then remultiplex it (same). And then 
the IP stack is not exactly sparing the CPU either.

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