[FFmpeg-devel] Inconsistent UDP output packet size - patch

[Konstantin Shpinev]

>>P. S. In my opinion the issue #2748 is not a bug. The produced stream
is perfectly OK and shouldn't break anything, probably except some
oversimplified artisanal software.

Many hardware receivers can't stable playing streams with various packet
size


2014-07-23 19:27 GMT+06:00 Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin at gmail.com>:

> First, the patch affects the code which is used in a lot of scenarios,
> not only UDP, and it would change the behaviour in many cases. In some
> scenarious the introduced effect (delayed writeout) would be
> undesired. So consider adding special option/flag to enable this new
> behaviour.
>
> "!s->max_packet_size" clause is strange, as Benoit has already said.
>
> The second chunk of patch is totally strange to me. I'd just move
> "s->buf_ptr = s->buffer;" line into previous conditional block, i
> believe that condition "s->buf_ptr < s->buffer" is not supposed to
> happen.
>
> P. S. In my opinion the issue #2748 is not a bug. The produced stream
> is perfectly OK and shouldn't break anything, probably except some
> oversimplified artisanal software.
>
> --
> Andrey Utkin
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