Re: [Live-devel] Read from device file problem

2009-04-02 Thread Ross Finlayson
Would a larger MTU likely help? No, this is a bad idea (and won't solve your problem anyway, if your input source is really generating data too fast). If the MTU is too large, you'll get IP-level fragmentation, increasing the chances of unrecoverable packet loss. Our "MPEG2TransportStreamF

Re: [Live-devel] Read from device file problem

2009-04-02 Thread Gordon Smith
> $ sudo ./testMPEG2TransportStreamer /dev/video2 > > I still get data loss after a few minutes with direct read, but that > may be a problem with the device module. I now see that overflow occurs in the encoder device module (zero free buffers). I see in ByteStreamFileSource.cpp that "fPreferr

Re: [Live-devel] Read from device file problem

2009-04-02 Thread Gordon Smith
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Gordon Smith wrote: > > Hello - > > After modification for input of filename, testMPEG2TransportStreamer > can read from pipe, but not read directly from device file. > The fread() in ByteStreamFileSource returns EIO and reads zero bytes > for direct read. > > Devi