[vlc-devel] [PATCH] HLS: hls_Download: don't put stream_Read in a loop

Frederic YHUEL fyhuel at viotech.net
Fri Mar 30 11:16:43 CEST 2012


On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Jean-Paul Saman <jpsaman at videolan.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Frederic YHUEL <fyhuel at viotech.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Jean-Paul Saman <jpsaman at videolan.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Frédéric Yhuel <fyhuel at viotech.net> wrote:
>>>> Maybe I missed something, but it seems to me that either that patch must
>>>> be applied, either "stream_Read" documentation must be fixed.
>>>
>>> May I ask why this is necessary?
>>
>> Not necessary but cleaner.
>>
>>> I recall that some HLS servers report
>>> 0 as segment size.
>>>
>>
>> Ok my bad, I did not understand. Would you put that explanation as a
>> comment? It would be useful for those who read the code IMHO.
>
> Would this suffice?
>
>        /* NOTE: Beware the size reported for a segment by the HLS
> server may not
>         * be correct, when downloading the segment data. There for
> check the size
>         * and enlarge the segment data block if necessary.
>         */
>

Except for the typo (s/There for/Therefore) I think it's fine. Thanks!

-- 
Frédéric



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