[Live-devel] Buffer size on client

[Andy Bell]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com>wrote:

>  I am looking at the Elphel example and I would like to stream MJPEG where
> the frame size would be in the region of 200KB, I have tried increasing
> the OutPacketBuffer::maxSize but I am still not able to view the stream in
> VLC.  If I use openRTSP I get the following message:
>
>
> MultiFramedRTPSource::doGetNextFrame1(): The total received frame size
> exceeds the client's buffer size (100000).  583 bytes of trailing data will
> be dropped!
>
>
> Do I just need to increase the buffer size on the client? If so how do I do
> increase the buffer on the client side?
>
>
> Just use the "-b <buffer-size>" option to "openRTSP"; see <
> http://www.live555.com/openRTSP/#other-options>
>
> I hope you realize, though, that JPEG is a very poor codec for video
> streaming, because each frame is so large (and so takes up many network
> packets).  If *any* of these network packets gets lost, then the whole frame
> must be discarded.
>
>
> Thanks.  I do realise that its a poor codec but I want to generate a video
stream of around 15Mbps and JPEG seemed the easiest.  Is there no way of
sending the frame in more packets so that there is no packet loss?

Thanks
Andy
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