[Libav-user] Receiving MPEGTS and fifo buffer overflows

[Andrey Utkin]

2013/5/30 Vahid Kowsari <vahid at kowsari.com>:
> 1. Increased the the fifo_size, set overrun non fatal
> 2. Made my avcodec_decode_video2 and my processing of the frame in different
> threads and use a queue of frames between them.

Doing 1 and 2, you are near to the right way.
Make separate thread for av_read_frame(), and another for decoding and
processing. Decoding (key)frame may take significant time, and at this
moment connection buffer gets overflowed. If you do av_read_frame()
all the time without waiting for anything else (and working on
anything else) you don't get such error.
Even simpler, you may proceed increasing fifo_size, and it should make
problem go away. Setting its size to something like stream bitrate (in
bytes per second) * 1 second should do that. Note that -fifo_size
option takes value in units of 188 bytes.

One more point: when you get such error of losing MPEGTS data, but
having overrun_nonfatal set to 1, you get decoding errors, but
consequence is just quality degradation, and possibly lost frames.
Correctly working application can live with it without need to restart
etc.
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Andrey Utkin