[vlc] Re: vlc fails with network jitter

[Gildas Bazin]

On Wednesday 24 September 2003 20:08, asrao at hns.com wrote:
> We used nistnet to add about 0.1 msecs max of jitter  (delay variation) to 
> a 1.5 Mbps MPEG-2 transport stream which was being played
> out in unicast UDP format.  The video started blocking and finally froze. 
> VLC works fine with less than 0.1 msec of jitter. 
> For those who are interested, the setting when problems on nistnet when 
> problems started was
>  mean delay = 360 msecs and sigma (standard deviation) = 0.03
> 
> Any suggestions on what we could do ?  We were running this on a Windows 
> 2000 PC - 700 Mhz Pentium -3 with 300 Meg fo RAM
> 
>  Does anyone know where in the code can one increase the udp socket 
> receive buffer size  SO_RCVBUF 
>  - I've been grepping for setsockopt with no avail in the source code.
> 

Have you tried to play with the --udp-caching config option. It may solve 
your problem.

--
Gildas

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