Re: [Ccrtp-devel] Demo program "audiotx" dropping RTP packets

[Federico Montesino Pouzols]

        Hi,...

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:05:14PM +0100, Robert Szelepcsenyi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I am trying to assemble a streaming application that would allow me to
> stream live TV broadcasts through a RTSP server. I have set up a Darwin
> Streaming Server on my Linux and configured it to distribute a live
> broadcast that I feed to it via RTP. I tried to feed an "au" file to it
> using the "audiotx" demo program and play the "broadcast" using a RealAudio
> player. I could hear the "broadcast", but it was periodically interrupted.
> When I tried to capture the broadcast using the "audiorx" demo program, I
> got a file of size about half of the original au file. For these reason I
> suspected that "audiotx" was malfunctioning. I tried to use a sniffer, which
> confirmed my suspicion.
> 
> The sample rate of the "au" file is 8000 samples per second. The "audiotx"
> program is set up to send packets of size 160 each 20us, i.e. 50 times a
> second, (50x160 = 8000). However, the sniffer reveals, that each second
> around 27 packets are sent and 23 packets are lost. When I changed the size
> and frequency of the broadcast (i.e. packets of size 1000 each 125us), I get
> about the same loss rate. For some strange reason the program just refuses
> to send any packets for about 1/2 second.
> 

        Um, very strange, I do not see any reason for this to
happen. I would use audiorx and modify it adding calls to
adu->getSeqNum() in order to get a trace of which packets are dropped.

> I have included the output from the sniffer.
> Linux is SuSE 8.1, kernel 2.4.19
> CommonCPP version is 1.08
> ccRTP is version 1.0pre2 (version 0.9 seemed not to know RTPSession)
> 
> 

        Yes, RTPSession was introduced beginning with 1.0pre0; it was
called RTPSocket before. RTPSocket is now an alias for RTPSession.


> Robert Szelepcsenyi
> 
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