[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] add timeout to udp_read

Ronald S. Bultje rsbultje
Thu Aug 20 11:17:58 CEST 2009


Hi,

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Luca Abeni<lucabe72 at email.it> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 21:46 +0200, Hagen Schmidt wrote:
>> to fix issue 539 the attached patch introduces an timeout [seconds]
>> which returns while waiting for an udp stream:
>> ffplay udp://235.2.2.2:5000?recv_timeout=5
>
> Maybe this is a trivial question, but... Why cannot the problem be
> resolved by implementing the timeout at application level?

It's a good suggestion, but should be implemented in ffplay before we
suggest others to do the same thing...

Ronald



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