[vlc] Re: impact of jitter

[Brian Raymond]

There was actually some discussion relating to this on the dev list  
recently so I would suggest giving that a look.

The buffering should take care of most jitter, jitter in the extreme  
case could mean starving the decoder which should result in  
blockyness or a frame freeze depending on the codec.

Most players act in a similar fashion, some might handle jitter and  
out of order packets better then VLC, others worse.

- Brian


On Oct 13, 2005, at 8:34 AM, Philippe De Neve wrote:

> Hi experts,
>
> can anybody tell me how and why vlc reacts on jitter on the  
> videostream? Are
> packets arriving to late discarded? or are the packets still  
> decoded and
> sent to the playoutbuffer where it is detected  that the playout  
> time of a
> certain frame is in the past so the frame is dropped and the current
> displayed frame freezes? So the impact of jitter is frame freezing  
> and no in
> frame damage (such as blockyness)? Am I correct?
>
> Do all (most)  players react this way?
>
> regards, Philippe.
>
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