[FFmpeg-user] Buffer Size for Stream Copy

[Wu-bin Zhen]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Wu-bin Zhen <vvubin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello ffmpeg,
>
> I am using ffmpeg to grab h264 video stream and aac audio stream from an
> internet based hardware encoder with the codec copy option, and it works
> pretty well. Now, I start to wonder if I can use the '-bufsize' option for
> the stream copy, just in case when the network is temporally slow down, or
> the encoder is suddenly chocking for some reason. I googled a little bit
> about the 'bufsize' option, and found that most people use the option for
> encoding.
>
> So my question is: Do you think using 'bufsize' option will be helpful for
> the stream copy? If so, what would be the recommended buffer size? My
> internet encoder produces video stream with 4000kbits/sec, and audio stream
> with 128kbits/sec.
>
> Thanks, and have a great weekend.
> -w
>

Sorry if I didn't explain clearly. So ffmpeg works fine when I specify the
option '-bufsize', but later I realized that it actually doesn't care the
value of the bufsize option. The ffmpeg command below works fine without
complaining anything about the bufsize value:

> ffmpeg -i http://192.168.1.224:1881/stream.ts -bufsize helloworld -vcodec
copy -acodec copy buffer_test.ts

So I start to wonder if ffmpeg doesn't do anything about '-bufsize' for the
stream copy.
Please advise. Thanks
-w