[streaming] different video size

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

   Hello,

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:31:15 -0400, Rafael Sousa <rafaelsousa007 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I was testing the VLC's streaming tool and I noticed a behavior. When I
> send a video streaming in a LAN and I save it at the receiver, the size
> in bytes of the video is smaller than the original, at first I thought
> that was the packet loss of the network, but I tested using the streaming
> to localhost (127.0.0.1) using two instances of VLC in the same machine
> and the result was the same: the video became smaller than the original.
> Why does this happen?

In principle, you could have packet loss on loopback as well due to queue
size limits. That said, the most likely cause is the use of a different
container file format, discarding of some tracks if you did not use the
--sout-all option, or some meta data.

-- 
Rémi Denis-Courmont