[streaming] Re: Packet Size

[Antoine Cellerier]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006, Chhaya, Harshal wrote:
> > I would like to know how to set the packet size for a video streaming 
> > diffusion. I have transcoded a video file with H.264 in several bit 
> > rates but when I make its diffusion by a LAN I always get big 
> > size packets.
> 
> The size of the packet on the network is independent of the packet
> size at the output of the video codec. For example, when streaming
> MPEG2-TS over ethernet, each ethernet packet (~1500 bytes) contains
> 7 MPEG2-TS packets (each of size 188 bytes). The receiver will 
> correctly separate the 7 MPEG2-TS packets and process them 
> one-by-one.

You can try using this option to change the MTU:
      --mtu <integer>            MTU of the network interface

-- 
Antoine Cellerier
dionoea

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