[vlc] Re: Mac OS X vlc video artifacts question

[Christophe Massiot]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006, Phil Pishioneri wrote:

> Benjamin's email on this jogged my memory: we see this all the time -- 
> artifacts on higher-bandwidth streams (about 10-12 Mbits/sec), due to 
> packets getting dropped in the network layer.
> 
> Our fix is to increase the UDP socket buffer before VLC starts playing 
> the stream, like so:
> 
>    sudo sysctl -w net.inet.udp.recvspace=131072
> 
> If this isn't sufficient, you may also have to do this
> 
>    sudo sysctl -w kern.ipc.maxsockbuf=2097152

Personally, I have this in my /etc/sysctl.conf :

net/core/rmem_max=1048576
net/core/rmem_default=131072

But this is under Linux.
-- 
Christophe Massiot.

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