[vlc-devel] Video packet reordering

[Ross Finlayson]

The "LIVE555 Streaming Media" libraries - that VLC uses to receive RTP packets - automatically reorders incoming RTP packets if they arrive out-of-order, so, VLC's decoding/rendering code will never see out-of-order data.

The only exception to this is that if an out-of-order packet arrives later than a pre-specified threshold (for VLC, 200ms), then the out-of-order packet will be dropped (i.e. treated as if it had been lost).

So, as long as your network does not delay out-of-order packets more than 200ms, you should be OK.  (In any case, as I noted above, VLC's decoding/rendering code will never see out-of-order data.)

Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/

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