Still stuck

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 10:52 -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:

>> (snip a couple of hundred lines of quotes)
>
> I've tried reworking my whole setup to use TCP sockets and it
> seems to behave more sanely (not 100% sure yet).  The biggest
> problem I'm having now is that TCP lets data flow in bits and
> pieces but all of the video elements want to see full frames.
> Even the RTP stuff has problems with many packets not being
> decoded because of the buffering issues.
> 
> Query: is there some way, possibly a stand alone element like
> 'queue' that will read an arbitrary TCP stream and only send
> out data of fixed size blocks?  In my example above, I'd need
> to read from the TCP stream until there are exactly 691200 bytes
> and only then pass the buffer on to ffenc_mpeg4.
> 
> Ideas?

gdppay / dpdepay might work (but also transmit some metadata and caps)

 Cheers
  -Tim