[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] add timeout to udp_read

[Luca Abeni]

Hi,

On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 21:46 +0200, Hagen Schmidt wrote:
> Hello,
> to fix issue 539 the attached patch introduces an timeout [seconds] 
> which returns while waiting for an udp stream:
> ffplay udp://235.2.2.2:5000?recv_timeout=5

Maybe this is a trivial question, but... Why cannot the problem be
resolved by implementing the timeout at application level?


				Luca