[Live-devel] [Mirasys] Live555 RTSP server questions

[Ross Finlayson]

Congratulations - you’ve discovered datagrams!  They sometimes get lost.

You can try to (1) reduce the rate at which datagrams get lost, and/or (2) reduce the *effect* of a datagram getting lost.

For (1):
	- Do you have one or more middleboxes - somewhere between your server and client - that might be dropping packets?
	- You could try increasing the OS’s internal buffer size for the transmitting socket (for the server) and/or the receiving socket (for the client).  By default, this is set to 50 kBytes for each socket - which is usually enough.  However, you could try increasing it.  (grep “increaseSendBufferTo” and “increaseReceiverBufferTo” in the code.)

For (2):
	- You could reconfigure your encoder to decrease the *size* of your H.265 NAL units (so that they will fit in fewer RTP packets, making it less likely that the loss of a single RTP packet will cause the whole NAL unit to be unusable).  I.e., you could encode each key frame as a series of ‘slice’ NAL units, instead of just one (ridiculously large) NAL unit.


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