[vlc-devel] live555 connection timeout (patch included)

[jboileau]

Hi Sebastien,

I am trying to compile this under cygwin and can't seem to make it
work. I have compiled live555 as per the instructions on their site
with your changes. All went well, no errors. I have run
configure-vlc.sh and built VLC. But my changes to live555 are not in
the new VLC I create. What step am I missing? Are there instructions
on adding a build of live555 to VLC somewhere?

Thanks for your help,

Jacques Boileau




On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Sébastien Escudier
<sebastien-devel at celeos.eu> wrote:
>
>
> Hi
>
> I modified live555 library and live555 vlc module to allow a configurable
> connection timeout.
>
> Waiting can be very long because of two things :
> - in live555 vlc module we call sendOptionsCmd and then describeURL, where we
> have a blocking connect.
> - This is done 3 times because of i_lefttries set to 3 (by the way, is it really
> necessary to try 3 times in case of timeout ?)
>
> So the blocking connect will be called 6 times in case of failure.
>
> So you have to keep in mind that if you set a timeout of 5 sec you have to wait
> for 30 sec before vlc stop trying again and again. But if you ask to quit, vlc
> can quit between two retry (so 10 sec max).
> But this is far better than without this patch, where you can wait several
> minutes.
>
> To use vlc with this patch you can use --rtsp-timeout 5 to set the connection
> timeout to 5 seconds.
>
> Please note that live555 _library_ modifications (two file) is compatible with
> older versions of vlc (or other softwares based on this library).
> live555 library modifications is done against 2008.09.02 version, you just have
> to replace the two files and recompile it.
> Then you can apply vlc attached patch and recompile vlc.
>
> Regards.
>
> PS : this is a repost of a mail sent yesterday, which may have been rejected
> because of the size (?), 127ko.
> Here I just attach diff files for live555 library. You can also find modified
> files here :
> http://www.celeos.eu/vlc/RTSPClient.cpp
> http://www.celeos.eu/vlc/RTSPClient.hh
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