[Live-devel] Video frames distorted in Live555 Proxy Server - how to fix

[Ross Finlayson]

For some reason, drive.google.com wouldn’t let me download (or play directly) your two videos.  However, the key point is here:

> And, this particular behaviour is observed when there is more than one client connected to the Proxy server. If there is only one client, the video runs smoothly. 

This tells me that your problem is network bandwidth.  Note that with one client connected to the proxy server (assuming that the proxy server is not multi-homed), your network utilization is 2x the stream’s bitrate.  With 2 clients connected to the proxy server, your network utilization is 3x the stream’s bitrate.  And so on.  But that’s really the only significant difference between the 1-client and N>1-client case.  With N clients, the proxy server sends each outgoing RTP packet N times.

So, you should look at your network utilization, compared to the network I/O capacity of your host (which can be a lot less that the nominal bitrate of your network interface).


Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/