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

[attila]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:04:13AM +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Il dom, 2004-07-18 alle 08:15, attila ha scritto:
> > 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 ?
> 
> still none. Mistery persisting

Ok, let's ask alex. He has to know it, he is the demuxer
maintainer :)

		Attila Kinali