[vlc-devel] [PATCH] gnutls: disable False Start

Thomas Guillem thomas at gllm.fr
Fri Feb 22 19:18:04 CET 2019



On Fri, Feb 22, 2019, at 17:06, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le vendredi 22 février 2019, 17:18:00 EET Thomas Guillem a écrit :
> > What about linux distribs ?
> 
> That's not my problem anymore than any other bugs in some library versions 

That is my problem then. I don't care who is the culprit, if we can do a fix in VLC, we should do it. 

> that we have hit in the past or will hit in the future. dvdnav, dvdread, 
> live555, FFmpeg have been far more problematic than GnuTLS in this respect.
> 
> Either we write against the API, or we require contrib static linking and 
> write against the implementation in it. We cannot write against an unknown 
> such as dynamically linked libraries provided by a third party.
> 
> Besides turning off False Start would double the latency

Yes, that is the price to paid, until someone make gnutls recv/write/handshake threadsafe. 

> 
> -- 
> Rémi Denis-Courmont
> 
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