[vlc-devel] Questions on buffer management ...

[John Michael Zorko]

Hello, all ...

VLC's buffer management confuses me, and the VLC API documentation is 
... well, often not in sync with the code (for instance, try grepping 
for the decoder FIFO macros).  So, could someone explain to me 
basically what the normal path is from some data read from a file (i.e. 
pf_read()), through the input_FillBuffer() / input_ShareBuffer() / etc. 
stuff, and finally ending up in the decoder FIFO?

As an example, pf_demux() is called often by the input thread, yet 
input_FillBuffer() seems to only be called when there is an actual 
packet to put in the FIFO, the reading seems to happen at the correct 
rate (though grepping for i_mux_rate doesn't seem to lead anywhere 
useful, either).  I'm looking for mwait() calls and the like, and I 
don't see any that are related to just reading from a file and filling 
the decoder FIFO.

How does VLC read the file at the correct rate?  That is basically what 
i'm trying to find out -- can anyone illuminate me?

Regards,

John

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