SRT stalling/errors

[Marianna Smidth Buschle]

On 13.09.2021 10.52, Marianna Smidth Buschle wrote:
>
>>> And I find it a shame that I can't play it in VLC, my version at least
>>> doesn't seem to support it:
>>>
>>> vlc --list | grep srt
>>> VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2)
>>>
>> I have also vlc 3.0.16 (win10) and it is just playing fine. I think 
>> all 3 are supporting srt. Maybe it only works on linux when you 
>> install srt-libs and/or libsrtp?
>>
> I'm under Debian, and I have both libsrt and libsrtp installed and 
> srt-tools. Couldn't find srt-libs though...
>
>
> Another thing I have noticed with the server "timer": I can see by 
> adding a timeoverlay that the stream is kind of paused when there 
> aren't any clients. The srtsink seems to block.
>
> Which is not a behavior I desire when I compare to RTP, I want it to 
> keep running and to have clients be able to connect at any time.
>
> And if I add a leaky queue before it I get the timer to run without 
> stopping, but then the client doesn't work properly: I get like a 
> single frame and then nothing.
>
Found out that I should use "wait-for-connection=false" on the srtsink 
to achieve the behavior I want

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“Marianna Smidth Buschle”