[gst-devel] udpsrc: Video becomes jerky after one hour of playback

[Wim Taymans]

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 06:21 -0700, Aleksey Yulin wrote:
> 
> We're trying to play a TS stream unicasted to the udp port. After adding a
> queue element after the udpsrc the playback is fine. Our pipeline looks as
> follows:
> 
> udpsrc port=1234 ! queue ! decodebin2 ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink

The transport stream demuxer does not yet support live streams.

Wim
> 
> But after an hour of playback the video picture becomes jerky, covered by
> multiple green boxes and other artifacts. It looks like some frames are
> being dropped on the source or decoder starts to skip them.
> 
> What could be the reason for this issue? Is it possibly that the queue
> becomes emty and doesn't fill again? We tried to use 'queue2' instead of
> 'queue' but got the same result.