[vdr] Re: Streamdev 0.0.2 problem

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Die, 2003-05-06 um 09.15 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger:
> Rene Bartsch wrote:
> > 
> > Really? Do I have to buy two or twenty additional machines? (My inmate
> 
> I believe you mean "room-mate" - or are you actually living in prison? ;-)
> 

No prison, sorry to disappoint you ;o)

But I'm not sharing my room, either - only kitchen and bathroom (three
IT-students in one flat -> cotenancy ...).

> > ...
> > But to be serious, I get the impression there's a buffer-handling
> > problem in transfer-mode of VDR. When one receiver-thread cannot take
> > over enough or as much data as the others the source-stream seems to
> > stop/slow down affecting all other receiver-threads on that channel.
> 
> Any cReceiver attached to a cDevice is expected to accept the data
> provided in the Receive() call *IMMEDIATELY* and with as little delay
> as possible. If one cReceiver takes too long here it will slow down
> the whole process and eventually cause the data stream to break for
> others, too. There is no way VDR can buffer this, it's up to the individual
> cReceiver to buffer the data if it can't handle it immediately.
> 

Some lights just switched on ... :o)

Rene




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