[Libav-user] RTP/RTSP support in FFMPEG

[kenan aksoy]

also in  udp.c change MAX_PACKET_SIZE , works fine


Kenan Aksoy

From: Luke Clemens <lclemens at gmail.com>
>To: "This list is about using libavcodec, libavformat, libavutil, libavdevice and libavfilter." <libav-user at ffmpeg.org>
>Sent: Friday, 15 July 2011, 1:10
>Subject: Re: [Libav-user] RTP/RTSP support in FFMPEG
>
>I did a diff with an old version of rtpdec.c and a new version (the
>old on has the timeout problem but it doesn't get mpeg4 errors). They
>are very different - it's almost a complete rewrite. The code is
>difficult to follow (well for me anyway, coming from an object
>orientated C++ point of view). Also, I'm not an RTP expert so I need
>to give myself a crash course with RFC3550 documentation and
>wikipedia.
>
>I tried setting the queue size (which was defaulting to zero). That
>can be done in ffplay using something like -max_delay 500000. After
>doing that I can now see that lots of packets are being dropped. My
>next thought was that maybe the decoding was too slow so the socket
>wasn't able receive fast enough. So I commented out the decoding
>portion. Now I have a loop that's basically reading as fast as
>possible and doing nothing with the frame.
>
>while (1) {
>     av_read_frame(ctx, pkt);
>}
>
>I set the log level to debug using av_set_log_level(AV_LOG_DEBUG).
>Even without decoding there one or two bright yellow warnings every
>second or so that look like:
>
>[mpeg4 @ 0037b6a0] RTP: missed 3 packets
>[pcm_mulaw @ 0037d980] RTP: missed 5 packets
>[mpeg4 @ 0037b6a0] RTP: missed 1 packets
>[mpeg4 @ 0037b6a0] RTP: missed 1 packets
>[mpeg4 @ 0037b6a0] RTP: missed 2 packets
>[mpeg4 @ 0037b6a0] RTP: missed 1 packets
>[mpeg4 @ 0037b6a0] RTP: missed 3 packets
>[mpeg4 @ 0037b6a0] RTP: missed 1 packets
>[pcm_mulaw @ 0037d980] RTP: missed 3 packets
>[mpeg4 @ 0037b6a0] RTP: missed 1 packets
>[mpeg4 @ 0037b6a0] RTP: missed 1 packets
>[mpeg4 @ 0037b6a0] RTP: missed 4 packets
>
>I'm almost positive that the "drops" are not due to network or
>hardware. The AXIS mpeg4 camera I'm testing with is plugged into the
>same gigabit switch as my PC and I've sent WAY higher bandwidth RTP
>streams through without any problems. Also, the older version of
>libavformat didn't have this issue, nor does live555 which VLC uses.
>
>Those warnings come from the rtp_parse_queued_packet() function in
>rtpdec.c. It throws the warning when the following packet's sequence
>number isn't the current sequence number plus one. Unless I'm missing
>something, the rtp parsing code doesn't appear to account for packets
>coming in out of order. Perhaps the AXIS and Panasonic cameras have a
>problem sending packets in order? But if that were the case, I would
>think the older versions of libavformat wouldn't have worked.  Wish I
>knew the guy who wrote this code because he would understand it much
>better...
>
>The rtp_parse_queued_packet() function gets called by
>ff_rtsp_fetch_packet() in rtsp.c, which is called by
>rtsp_read_packet() in rtspdec.c.
>
>The socket reading code occurs in ffurl_read(), which calls
>retry_transfer_wrapper(), which calls transfer_func(), which calls a
>callback in the URLContext structure, which performs udp_read(), which
>calls recv() on a socket.
>
>At this point, I don't know if the problem is in the rtsp decoder, or
>if it's an issue with the actual UDP socket reading. If other UDP
>transport protocols work, then that probably means it's not the UDP
>reading at fault.
>
>I also have a headache... :-)
>
>This would be easier if I could get ffmpeg working with a visual
>debugger. I tried it with Qt Creator in Ubuntu but ran into problems.
>Does anyone know where I can find a tutorial or something on how to
>visually debug libavformat or ffmpeg? I don't care if it's qt creator,
>eclipse or visual studio - as long as I can step into ffmpeg
>functions.
>
>--luke
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