[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Sets no send/receive timeouts on tcp socket.

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de
Mon Oct 4 20:16:43 CEST 2010


On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:33:35PM +0700, Andrei Katsuk wrote:
>  I wrote a patch that implements the following feature: no change tcp
> send/recv timeouts.
>  It is useful if you want to play media file over slow http-stream.
> The command option for this feature is "no-sendrecv-timeouts".

IMO if you're adding an option anyway, it would be better to allow
specifying the precise timeout to use (as a float in seconds for example),
with e.g. negative values meaning "do not change".


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