[streaming] Re: video on demand

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

John Anderson wrote:
>>Mplayer decoding as fast as it gets fed, and syncing on audio, VLC using
>>the TS timestamping for 100% accuracy syncing...
>>You have to remember that VLC was MADE to playback MPEG2 TS UDP streams.
>>  It's basically what it does best.
> 
> 
> Does VLC require the TS 188 byte packets to be aligned at the start of the
> UDP packet (and an integral number per packet)?

up untill 0.7.2 this was a requirment yes. With reason btw. if you start 
  spanning those TS packets over multiple UDP packets, then losing one 
UDP packet means you can also loose information in another udp packet, 
because you don't have a complete TS packet..

In 0.7.3 (in development) this is no longer a requirement, though it is 
still advised not to create these kind of streams with a server.

DJ


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