[Live-devel] Use of fBank buffers

[Ross Finlayson]

>We are using RTP server and client test programs to stream MPEG II files. On
>the server side, we observed that it uses two bank buffers fBANK[0] and
>fBANK[1]. It reads BANK_SIZE of data into fBANK[0] and after parsing and
>sending the data to the client, it swaps the remaining data from fBANK[0]
>into fBANK[1] and reads BANK_SIZE of data into fBANK[1].
>
>Any idea why to use two buffers instead of single buffer.

Basically, because this makes it possible to read - from the input 
source - in large chunks (to fill an entire bank).
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/