[vlc] Re: PTS problems

[Måns Rullgård]

Benjamin PRACHT <bigben+spam at videolan.org> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 03, 2004, Rick Davis wrote :
>> All,
>>  
>>     I have a video encoder going in to a multiplexor which is streaming the
>> content on to the network. The muxltiplexor does nothing more than packetize
>> the DVB packets in to a UDP message which holds 7 DVB packets. Most of the
>> time it plays fine. Every now and then I can't watch it. I keep getting the
>> following errors. 
>>  
>> main audio output warning: PTS is out of range (2239824), dropping buffer 
>> main audio output warning: PTS is out of range (22407334), dropping buffer
>
> One of the reasons for such a message could be a too high load on the
> client... (decoding takes too long and audio arrives to the audio output
> after its PTS. Other reasons could inlude a broken stream, but that's
> very unlikely if you are taking TS DVB packerts without altering them

Some DVB programs require increasing the --{file,udp}-caching value to
1000 or so, in order to avoid such errors.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru at inprovide.com

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