[Live-devel] Birates in Video-Streams

[Florian Winter]

Ross Finlayson wrote:

>> And another problem is setting this rmem_maxsize value. This value 
>> could only be changed by root. So you have to call your system 
>> administrator cause you would see a streaming video. I don't know 
>> about your system administrator but here they aren't really happy 
>> about this questions. :-)
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> That's why you can, instead, call "increaseReceiveBufferTo()" in your 
> receiver (application) code. 

with increaseReceiveBufferTo() you can increase the socket receive 
buffer size only up to the value in /proc/sys/net/core/rmem_max. this 
means you have to do both: call this method and change the configuration 
in /proc.

this requires that anyone who wants to view high quality video streams 
with a libLiveMedia based application needs to have
1. root privileges
2. knowledge about his OS that most average users don't have