[Live-devel] Too many buffered packets

[Ross Finlayson]

>Hi,
>Today I cam across an issue where the source was seemingly buffering 
>up thousands of packets.  I got a crash in my client which after 
>looking at the backtrace could be to do with a memory / stack issue. 
> Basically I found a backtrace that was 16 *thousand* frames long. 
> It seems that there were thousands of buffered packets in the 
>linked list for some reason.  When I called pause, it called 
>MultiFramedRTPSource::reset which deleted the buffers in the linked 
>list.  
>
>I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to what caused this 
>and how I could fix it.

This is strange.  The only possible explanation I can think of right 
now is that perhaps you accidentally called 
"MultiFramedRTPSource::setPacketReorderingThresholdTime()" with an 
inappropriately large threshold parameter, so that you're waiting too 
long for the arrival of an out-of-order packet that turns out to have 
been lost instead.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/