[Live-devel] bytestreamFileSource, doGetNextFrame, and events

[Ross Finlayson]

>From looking at examples in the code, if I were to use 
>fInputSource->getNextFrame(), it looks like I would do my processing 
>in afterGettingFrame() then, correct?

Yes.

>
>I wouldnt know how many bytes to tell the getNextFrame() call to 
>get, though, since I have just a delimited elemtary stream coming 
>from the file.

You should request as many bytes as you have space available in your 
buffer (that you'll be using to do the parsing).

>
>Im thinking that telling getNextFrame to get 1 byte at a time 
>wouldnt be very efficient, but I need to check one byte at a time 
>for the 3-byte delimiter.

You should read large chunks of data, into a buffer.
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Ross Finlayson
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