[vlc] Re: Network stream freezes after a few sec

[Benjamin PRACHT]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004, Chhaya, Harshal wrote :
>  
> > (iii) efficiency of the TCP/IP stack on the receiver. This is 
> > a hornets nest of possible problems. But it would be possible to 
> > measure latency between the interrupt for the network port and the
> time
> > that the packet arrives for processing by the application.
> 
> TCP/IP is not involved in this particular setup. The network cards are
> hooked up USB 2.0 and I am using a serial USB driver to pick up packets
> from the network and pass them on to vlc. I have an application that
> gets the packets and uses 'fwrite' to write to a pipe that feeds that 
> data to vlc via stdin. I hope that makes sense.

Ok, then, you can try 2 things :
- Using the shortcut "stream:-" instead of "file:-" or "-" to open the
  stream
- Set the --cr-average option to a higher value, say 1000.

> 
>  
> > (iv)  efficiency of the program. Is there latency introduced 
> > within the player.
> 
> I want to try and see if buffering a couple of seconds of data in
> vlc makes things better. Is there a way to enable buffering via
> the command line?
> 

this can be down using the --file-caching option (in ms)

-- 
BigBen

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