[Live-devel] Is it reasonable for QuickTimeFileSink to compensate video packet loss?

[Ross Finlayson]

>In QuickTimeFileSink, I note that the video is compensated when the 
>variable seqNumGap (rtpSeqNum - fLastPacketRTPSeqNum) is larger than 
>1. However, for a video frame consisting of many rtp packet, the 
>seqNumGap is usually larger than 1, that is, the compensation is 
>always performed for video frames if the Sink variable 
>fPacketLossCompensate is set true. Is it reasonable, or I miss something ?

The "fPacketLossCompensate" stuff is just a hack that we added for a 
customer several years ago.  It shouldn't be relied upon to do 
anything useful, and that code will probably be removed completely someday.


	Ross Finlayson
	Live Networks, Inc. (LIVE555.COM)
	<http://www.live555.com/>