[vls-devel] Occasional crazy problem with vls

[Andrew de Quincey]

Has anyone else seen something like this:

VLS is playing a looped MPEG2 program stream file, multicasting it as a UDP 
MPEG2 transport stream.

This works fine.. normally.

However, sometimes _BUT NOT ALWAYS_, when the load on the server is high (e.g. 
copying a large mpeg file onto it), VLS goes crazy. It starts sending the 
stream out really fast... say 20x the speed it should. This continues until 
it hits the end of the file, at which point it starts playing normally again.

Note that the problems doesn't always occur... usually videolan behaves 
correctly with high loads, but as I said, occasionally this problem occurs. 
I'm guessing this is some timestamping problem caused by the high load, as 
the file plays perfectly in videolan at all other times.

I'm asking this because (for various reasons) I'm not using the most recent 
version of videolan, although I'm not that far behind. Has anyone fixed 
anything like this recently (before I start looking)?

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