[Live-devel] Buffer size on client

[Andy Bell]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Ross Finlayson <finlayson at live555.com>wrote:

>  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?
>
>
> ???  If JPEG frames were packed into more packets, then you'd be *more*
> likely to see packet loss (thereby resulting in the loss of a JPEG frame).
>
> However, you should also reread
> http://www.live555.com/liveMedia/faq.html#packet-loss  This might help
> you.
>
>
>
OK.  So could I stream over TCP rather than UDP?

Thanks
Andy
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