[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Non-blocking protocols

[Luca Barbato]

On 01/31/2011 04:32 PM, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> General comments:
> - if we have a non-blocking API, then we should have a library
> function to get FDs and/or poll them. Is that available through
> url_*() API? I believe it is, because rtsp.c uses it, but just want to
> make sure

We might consider something slightly more structured and or consider
implementing network double buffering (to solve the issue we are having
with the kernel network buffers being too small to keep all the data
between calls)

> - this is just for protocols, not demuxers, right? Should we introduce
> a flag to indicate which protocols support non-blocking red/write?
> This'd be nice for things like webcams and so on also at some point

our avdevice has a similar problem for the output (the loop is driven by
the decoding process while some apis expect to be able to be the driver...)

lu

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Luca Barbato
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