[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] libavformat: add librist protocol

Nicolas George george at nsup.org
Mon Feb 1 16:45:09 EET 2021


Rodney Baker (12021-02-02):
> Nagle can introduce unwanted latency which is not desirable for real-time 
> streaming. Mind you, tcp is inappropriate for real-time streaming anyway - 
> that's what rtsp was invented for. I don't think Nagle belongs at app level 
> anyway - it's a network stack function (that can be disabled with the 
> TCP_NODELAY setting). 

I know all that. Please do not answer ONLY to the last sentence of my
mail. You have not answered the important part:

> > Can you clarify something? Is this supposed to be a packet protocol or a
> > stream protocol?
> > 
> > I.e., if the reader is waiting for 100 octets, and the writer sent 20
> > then 30 then 40, will the reader get three reads of 20, 30, 40 or a
> > single read of 20+30+40=90?

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George
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