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

[Phil Pishioneri]

On 3/6/06 6:11 PM, Jean-Paul Saman wrote:
> On Linux and I believe also under MacOS X we can use sockopt() function 
> to enlarge the socket buffer for HD streams, but the downside of this is 
> that the application needs to be run as root.
>   

On Mac OS X, to see if you're dropping packets while VLC is playing the 
stream (without making the change), keep running

    netstat -s -p UDP

and see if number in the line "dropped due to full socket buffers" keeps 
increasing.

Simple script to check every 2 seconds:
 = = = =
#!/bin/bash

# there's a ":" at the end of the next line
while :
do
  netstat -s -p UDP
  sleep 2
done | fgrep 'full socket buffers'
 = = = =

-Phil

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