[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Workaround for MPEG-TS crashes

[Baptiste Coudurier]

On 09/15/2009 12:17 PM, Joakim Plate wrote:
> Baptiste Coudurier<baptiste.coudurier<at>  gmail.com>  writes:
>
>
>>
>> It has some overhead, however it is pretty robust. All IPTV feeds are
>> basically mpeg-ts over multicast udp. 65k is reasonable indeed and
>> should not cause problems.
>>
>
> I must say i agree with micheal here. Why limit the amount if data read to
> resync. You could have corrupt data delivered by a DVB reciever for a long
> time. That doesn't mean it won't recover after a while.

In any case the amount must be limited, demuxer must give up at a 
certain point to permit "reponsiveness".

> av_log that you exceeded search amount. Return EAGAIN to libav user so his
> processing loop remains "responsive"

Yes, it seems EAGAIN might be a good idea, if people are ok with not 
being able to distinguish "resync error" from "read again", for now.

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