[vlc] Re: Packet Burst

[Christophe Massiot]

At 14:53 -0500 7/06/05, Howard Johnson wrote:
>We have been doing some testing with VLC as well as some 
>Video-over-IP hardware providers (e.g. Skystream, Thales, etc).
>
>In our testing we have noticed that VLC (in server mode) tends to 
>overload some switches and DSLAMS.  The only cause that we have 
>found so far is that, compared to others, VLC bursts about 8 packets 
>at a time.  Others tend to burst a lot less... around 4 packets at a 
>time.

If you are using Linux, you should use the --rt-priority option, and 
run VLC as root.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.

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