[Live-devel] Changing maxPacketSize value for H264VideoRTPSink

[Maxim P. DEMENTIEV]

Thanks for your quick and informative reply!

Yes, the LAN - it's exactly my case.
I see that the new version of the library is delivered.
I'm going to use it and to send back my results of a performance testing.

Regards,
Max

On 07/23/2015 09:39 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> Increasing the maximum packet size (up to some value < 2^16 bytes) can
> be a good idea if you’re planning to stream only over a LAN.  If,
> however, you’re planning to stream beyond a single LAN, then you
> should be aware that some routers (and/or firewalls) may limit the
> size of network packets that they can forward.  In that case your
> (larger) packets might not get forwarded at all.
>
> As you noted, increasing the packet size reduces the number of network
> packet sends that get done, and thus improves performance (though
> probably mostly due to to reduced OS overhead, not reduced overhead in
> the LIVE555 code).
>
>
> Ross Finlayson
> Live Networks, Inc.
> http://www.live555.com/
>
>
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