[Libav-user] avformat_open_input: adding a timeout

[Ryan Grewatz]

Hello,

I'm currently writing a video streaming app that uses the ffmpeg libraries.
I'm dealing with a situation where I'm preparing an instance of
AVFormatContext by calling avformat_open_input. I'm using this over a
network under RTSP and I need to handle cases where a connection cannot be
established. I figured the best way to go about this is to add a connection
timeout of around 5-10 seconds, but I just can't seem to figure out how to
get this idea to work. Any help is greatly appreciated.

code:
    if(avformat_open_input(&formatCtx, "rtsp://192.168.0.100/1", NULL,
NULL)!=0){
        LOGI(".100 not working... trying .101");
        formatCtx = NULL;
        if(avformat_open_input(&formatCtx, "rtsp://192.168.0.101/1", NULL,
NULL)!=0)
            return -1; // Couldn't open file


Thanks!

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Ryan
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