[streaming] Re: VLM: limit on number of VOD, opening of media at setup, ...

[Clément Stenac]

Hello,

> 1) streams are opened at setup time. This has the
> side effect of being slow (several seconds per
> stream), and to lock VLC if the stream is not
> available at setup time. Is it possible to setup
> VLM to only open the stream when a client request
> it ?

This if unfortunately not possible at the moment, though I think it might
be "quite" easy to do. Please see
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/537. I don't think it will be made
for 0.8.5 though.

> 2) it seems there's a limit to the number of VOD
> object ; if I open too many of them (I have about
> 120 streams to register), vlc crash. What is the
> limit and how can I raise it ?

There is no limit, but VLC has not much been tested for scalability in
VOD. Does the crash happen when you try to view the stream, or when you
register it ?

In the first case, I guess it would mean that too many threads are
running. In the second case, it might "just" be a simpler bug. Could you
please try to obtain a backtrace of the crash by running VLC in gdb and
entering the "bt" command when it crashes ?

Thanks for your feedback,

-- 
Clément

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