[xine-devel] Re: [xine-cvs] CVS: xine-lib/src/input Makefile.am,1.81,1.82 input_gnome_vfs.c,1.22,1.23

[Bastien N. <ha...@ha...>]

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 16:18 -0200, Miguel Freitas wrote:
> Hi Bastien,
> 
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:14:36 -0700, Bastien Nocera
> <ha...@us...> wrote:
> > Log Message:
> > - make use of the net buffer control in gnome-vfs, to speed it up a bit
> 
> just to make sure you know what you are doing: nbc is a mechanism to
> pause playback when input data is not available. it does _not_ add any
> more buffering to your plugin. it is mostly used with streaming
> videos, since network might be unable to provide data in time.
> 
> i don't know what you meant with "speed it up a bit" - nbc might not
> be what you are looking for...

Playing back large streams over a 801.22b network is pretty shaky if
somebody else is eating some of that bandwidth ;)
And that's exactly what this patch fixes.

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Bastien Nocera <ha...@ha...>