[Live-devel] Problem handling multiple MPEG streams.

[Ross Finlayson]

>I am having segment fault problems when trying to use the live 
>library to decode frames coming from multiple RTP streams.  I am 
>setting up a seperate UsageEnvironment, TaskScheduler, 
>MPEG1or2VideoRTPSource and RTCPInstance for each RTP source.   Each 
>doEventLoop is on its own thread (using clone under linux to create thread).

I suggest first receiving/processing just one RTP stream (in a single 
thread), and see if your problem occurs in that case.

>   Eventually one of the threads triggers a SIGSEGV signal. I notice 
> that the documentation does not talk about thread safety.

Yes it does - see <http://www.live.com/liveMedia/faq.html#threads>

Everyone, *please* read the FAQ!!

>  Is there a way to handle multiple RTP streams safely?

Note that you *don't* need to use multiple threads to receive 
multiple RTP streams.  Instead, you can just use a single thread (and 
UsageEnvironment and TaskScheduler and event loop).


	Ross Finlayson
	LIVE.COM
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