[Live-devel] Sysclock sanity check causes slow-motion MPEG-2 TS playback from live555MediaServer

[Ross Finlayson]

>We have discovered a problem with the following patch, introduced in 
>live.2010.12.05:
>
>- Added a sanity check to "MultiFramedRTPSink" and "BasicUDPSink" to
>   allow for the possibility of the system clock jumping ahead in time,
>   and thereby messing up the calculation of how long to wait before
>   sending the next packet. (Thanks to Anders Chen for noting this
>   issue.)

Sorry, but that patch definitely averted a real problem, and we won't 
be backing it out.  If you're really seeing a problem with this new 
version, then you're going to have to identify specifically what is 
causing it.


>Maybe this patch also caused this guy's symptom:
>
>http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2010-December/012969.html

No, that's something completely unrelated.


>Was this patch just "looks like a good idea" sort of patch, or does 
>it fix something else, and reverting it breaks that?

The latter.  See 
http://lists.live555.com/pipermail/live-devel/2010-November/012840.html
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/