[FFmpeg-devel] Network IO in FFmpeg (was: abstractable threading api)

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 12:36:26PM -0700, Roger Pack wrote:
> On 12/23/13, Roger Pack <rogerdpack2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>The maximum size of the buffer seems to be around 300k, at least on Linux
> >> (it could be higher with the help of root privileges, but we can not
> >> count
> >> on it). That is about half a second of digital TV, unless I am mistaken.
> >> A
> >> video processing application can easily be busy for that amount of time,
> >> even if it is on average fast enough to work in real time.
> >> Therefore, we need something whose task is to read from the socket as
> >> fast
> >> as possible, storing the data into a larger buffer.
> 
> Interestingly, I looked into the numbers for different OS's
> SO_RECVBUF.  In OS X currently the code by default sets it to 65K from
> a 42K default.  In windows it sets it to 64K from an 8K default.  In
> linux it attempts to set it to 64K from about 100K default (it
> actually sets it *down*) so...for at least those OS's, unless you
> specify manually a high "buffer_size" then it is prone to packet loss,
> especially when i-frames come "all at once" in several UDP packets,
> etc.
> 
> Maybe it should set it higher by default, and this is expected?  It
> appears all the OS's mentioned can handle 1MB SO_RECVBUF at least...

1mb is a much more reasonable default than a few kb for video
when theres no thread around to pick up data quickly

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