[vlc] Re: VLC 0.5.3 Studder when playing network content

[Nicolas Croiset (VDL)]

At 18:39 09/04/03 -0400, you wrote:
>I downloaded and installed VLC 0.5.3 on two different Windows XP systems. 
>I have successfully played two CD's smoothly "Gladiator and Pitch 
>Black"  directly from the DVD players on each system.
>
>But when I stream them to a UDP or multicast address, the clients on other 
>systems encounter a slight pause or studder in the video every 2 seconds 
>or so when watching the stream. In order to test if it was a local network 
>issue, I fired up a second VLC player on the same P4 2.4 Ghz system that I 
>was streaming it from and tried to watch the stream using the loopback 
>interface and got the same pausing and studder every 2 seconds.
>
>Since I only get this behavior when watching it via the network, I am 
>wondering if there is either
>
>A. A bug in the network code in VLC
>B. A setting in the TCP stack on Windows that VLC does not like.
>
>Any help would be great! I'd like to demo this open source software to my 
>boss for deployment, but I'd like to get this slight kink worked out 
>before I show it to him.

We had a similar problem (the buffer of vlc server was growing also) and 
vlc client does didn't work properly we correct this bug by deleting in the 
modules/access_output/udp.c  in the function ThreadWrite the line mwait( 
i_wait );

This had solved our problem, but this modification had not been put in the CVS.

If you can test this to see if it' slved your problem...

Bye.


Nicolas Croiset                   ncroiset at vdl.fr
Tel : +33 4 72 84 06 04   Fax : +33 4 72 84 06 02

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