[streaming] Packet reordering

[Remi Denis-Courmont]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 00:25:58 +0200, "Javier Gálvez Guerrero"
<dulceangustia at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to know if VLC implements packet reordering at reception in
> unicast, multicast, both ways of streaming or no one of them.

With RTP/TS, VLC has some support for re-ordering using the packet
sequence. With plain RTP, liblive555 should handle packet re-ordering as
well. It is a well-known limitations of raw (TS over) UDP that packet
re-ordering breaks streaming.

Bottom line: use RTP.

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