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

[Luca Abeni]

On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 05:17 -0400, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Luca Abeni<lucabe72 at email.it> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 21:46 +0200, Hagen Schmidt wrote:
> >> 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?
> 
> It's a good suggestion, but should be implemented in ffplay before we
> suggest others to do the same thing...

Well, you know... Patches are welcome ;-)


				Luca