[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] unix socket protocol and our proto situation

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:46:21AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Our network protocol layer is pretty much ineffective and can lose quite
> easily packets. Usually the system buffer would hide the issue with tcp
> based protocols and udp based might hide well the problem till we call
> url_read often enough. Losing data over loopback is something we do
> experience already when we test rtp.
> 
> Here yesterday stab at the unix sockets, it shows pretty well how much
> our current proto layer rely on system buffers instead doing its proper
> buffering itself.
> 
> Way to use it:
> 
> ./ffplay -f mpegts unix:///tmp/ff.socket &
> 
> sleep 2 && ./ffmpeg_g -re -i something -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f
> mpegts unix://tmp/ff.socket
> 
> Expect to lose lots of frames.

why are packets lost with this?
with a realtime stream and udp its possible to overflow system buffers
but i would have expected that in the above case the writing process would
block instead of data being lost
what am i missing?

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