[vlc] Re: upd stream buffering

[Mehdi Nafaa]

Dear all,

I want to create http parallel buffer to the streaming buffer, can please
tell me where are exactly the vriable taking in charge the streaming buffers
in the http/udp client.

I apreciate your help,
Mehdi.

2006/7/12, Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman at planet.nl>:
>
> Albert Marti wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 7/12/06, *Jean-Paul Saman* < jean-paul.saman at planet.nl
> > <mailto:jean-paul.saman at planet.nl>> wrote:
> >
> >     Michael Chan wrote:
> >      > Dear all,
> >      >
> >      >   What if I have a network that can provide a 1GB capacity and
> assume
> >      > that the PC I/O port is fast enough to transfer the stream to
> decode
> >      > module?  Can I reduce the buffer in such situation?
> >      >   Besides, Is the capture from video signal (said video capture
> from
> >      > 1394 input) also follow the same behaviour?  I test that there
> are 1
> >      > second delay from the video cam to the display in my pc.  Anyway
> to
> >      > reduce the delay?
> >     Use another value for --dv-caching=10000, for instance. However
> since
> >     1394 sends data at 400 Mbps over the link, you need a really _fast_
> PC
> >     (>2GHz CPU) or LARGE buffer to not drop data at the input.
> >
> >     Gtz,
> >     Jean-Paul Saman.
> >
> >      >
> >
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> >
> > I guess that this buffer is needed because the CPU needs enough time to
> > process all the packets. I guess also that this buffer has a minimum
> > safe value to work with a medium fast PC.
> >
> > Then, without having any knowledge about the VLC code/architecture,
> > could be possible to modify this buffer to a small value, recompile VLC
> > and run it on a really _fast_PC to reduce this latency?
> >
> > Has this any sense?
>
> You don't need to recompile for adjusting buffers in vlc. Just use the
> modules caching option. For input DV you need --dv-caching=<value> for
> file input --file-caching=<value>, for UDP input --udp-caching=<value>,
> etc.
>
> On the stream output chain it is the same. For UDP out adjust
> --sout-udp-caching=<value>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Gtz,
> Jean-Paul Saman.
>
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