[Live-devel] Event loop problems

[Matthew Hodgson]

Hi Ross,

Ross Finlayson wrote:
>> Is there any way to somehow unwedge live555's event loop so that it
>> executes callbacks, other than having it receive RTP?  Is the standard
>> practice to add an additional readfd to its scheduler's select(), and prod
>> it from a different thread/application via select() when you need it to
>> run callbacks?  If so, is there an obvious way of doing this short of
>> subclassing my own UsageEnvironment and TaskScheduler?
> 
> One soluation is to create a new raw UDP (not RTP) socket, and use it 
> to send messages to the event loop.  (Being a socket, the arrival of 
> each packet will unblock "select()", and will be treated as an event.)
> 
> In early April, Stas Desyatnlkov posted the code that he wrote to 
> solve this problem:
> 
> http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2006-April/004215.html

Thanks hugely for the pointers - the comparison of the two techniques 
(prodding a dummy UDP socket, and scheduling an 'interrupt' task) is most 
informative. :)

thanks,

Matthew.