[gst-devel] oggmux max-delay & max-page-delay default

[Gergely Nagy]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 18:23 +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 14:06 +0100, Tim Müller wrote:
> > On Friday 22 April 2005 09:54, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> > 
> > > At the moment, oggmux has a default value for max-delay and
> > > max-page-delay of 5000000000. I admit I haven't the
> > > slightest clue about exactly what these mean, but they
> > > cause problems, as they're too high.
> > 
> > I think the default should have been 0.5 seconds in both cases, and thought 
> > that had been fixed already as well. IIRC the problem with a value of 5 
> > seconds is basically that the muxer writes out a page with 5 seconds of 
> > video, followed by a page with 5 seconds of audio, so if the 
> > player's/demuxer's buffer isn't big enough, odd things will happen.
> > 
> > > Are there any objections? 
> > 
> > Are you sure a default value of 5ms isn't a bit too small?
> 
> It is definately too small, since it enforces pushing out a lot more
> pages than needed.  But I'm guessing Gergely made a typo there :)

Indeed, I did. I was thinking of 0.5s (that was mentioned on IRC long
ago, and that is what I actually used :)

So, as I see, there are no objections for changing it to 0.5s, right?
(Though, I need to check if anyone beat me to it... haven't been online
for the past day and a half)

-- 
Gergely Nagy