[vlc] Re: Packet Burst

[Howard Johnson]

Christophe Massiot wrote:

> 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.
>
Thanks for the information... I will try this.

Howard

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