[streaming] Re: How does vlc determine the sending rate?

[Benjamin PRACHT]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004, Chhaya, Harshal wrote :
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been using VLC to stream movies across a LAN and am wondering
> how the sender vlc knows what rate to send the packets at? If I use
> UDP for streaming, what stops VLC from sending the video as fast as
> the network allows? 
> 
> Is there is a control protocol that vlc uses for flow control etc.?
> Or does it use the information in the video file to determine the
> encoding rate and then send the data at that rate?
> 

VLC uses informations in the stream to determine when to send packets
indeed... (file formats include timestamps for this purpose). 

If you want to change the bitrate of a streamed video, you should
transcode it, using the transcoding features of VLC for instance.

-- 
Benjamin Pracht

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