[vlc-devel] Arggh! I fucked up. LIVE555 breaks VLC 1.1.6

[Pierre Ynard]

> >By the way the way we use the asynchronous interface is totally broken,
> >requests and responses are not even processed in order.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand this.  If you're running a single LIVE555 
> event loop (i.e., in just one thread), as you should, then RTSP 
> responses will be processed in the order that they arrive.

doEventLoop() is used to wait for both RTSP responses and incoming RTP
packets. So there is a bug where for example you issue a seek request,
and while waiting for the PAUSE response a packet is received, which
causes the module to think that the PAUSE response came back with an
error; then if another RTSP request is sent right away, the original
PAUSE response while be processed as the response to the second request.
And so on.

> >  What makes doEventLoop() return?
> 
> It will return if (and only if) its 'watch variable' parameter (if 
> present) gets set to a non-zero value (perhaps by a separate thread).

Okay, I can fix the problem.

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Pierre Ynard
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