[Live-devel] Too many buffered packets

[Ross Finlayson]

>I checked my code, and I set the threshold to be 100,000 (100ms) - 
>which I deemed to be an appropriate number.  Do you disagree?

No, that's fine.  In fact, that's the default value.

>One thing I did notice is that my client code could sometimes block 
>processing of the incoming data.

That shouldn't be a problem.  The "MultiFramedRTPSource" code reads 
incoming network packets only when initiated by the downstream 
reader.  If the downstream reader (for whatever reason) stops calling 
"getNextFrame()", then incoming packets are buffered inside the OS, 
not in our code.

But in any case, the "packetReorderingBuffer" gets filled in only 
when there is a lost packet, and then only up until the threshold 
time (100ms).  How many network packets do you expect to see arriving 
in 100ms?  That's the maximum number of packets that you should ever 
see in that buffer.
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/