[MPlayer-dev-eng] Why MAX_PACKS and MAX_PACK_BYTES ?

attila attila at pai.kinali.ch
Sun Jul 18 08:15:58 CEST 2004


Hoi Nico,

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:36:12PM +0100, Nico wrote:
> searching in the source tree  it seems that the only use of MAX_PACKS 
> and MAX_PACK_BYTES is to
> set a threshold to block demuxer->audio and demuxer->video to be 
> refilled; the question is why?
> Can anyone explain why the fifos shouldn't be refilled? and the reason 
> for those values ? (they seem to be based
> on euristhics)

Got any answers on this ?


			Attila Kinali




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