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

[Marshall Eubanks]

On Aug 22, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:

> 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.
>

One thing the CPU does for most streaming is create RTP packet headers.

Regards
Marshall

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