videorate

[Stefan Sauer]

On 02/06/2012 01:19 PM, Baldur Gislason wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Stefan Sauer <ensonic at hora-obscura.de> wrote:
>> On 02/03/2012 10:30 PM, strider4102 wrote:
>>> I'm trying to get a videorate to duplicate frames, but it only does this
>>> while it is actively receiving data. When data stops coming in (for example,
>>> when I pull the ethernet out of the IP camera I'm using as a source), it
>>> stops duplicating frames. How can I get it to continue to spit frames out
>>> while waiting for the connection to come back? (Idea is to eventually
>>> overlay an 'attempting to reconnect message' without the client losing their
>>> connection) Pipeline:
>> imagefreeze would repeat the frame. Not sure if it would make sense for
>> videorate to do that too. You could try making such a change in
>> videorate and post a patch.
>>
>> Stefan
> According to its documentation, videorate drops and duplicates frames,
> depending on what's needed.
I thought it does not work for you? There might be a bug, you know it is
not always so that things work under all conditions as documented :) I
mean, please have a look at the code and see if you can fix it.

Stefan