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This improves network throughput of the hls demuxer by avoiding the latency introduced by downloading segments one at a time. The problem is particularly noticable over high-latency network connections: for instance, if RTT is 250ms, there will a 250ms idle period between when one segment response is read and the next one starts. The obvious solution to this is to use HTTP pipelining, where a second request can be sent (on the persistent http/1.1 connection) before the first response is fully read. Unfortunately the way the http protocol is implemented in avformat makes implementing pipleining very complex. Instead, this commit simulates pipelining using two separate persistent http connections. This has the advantage of working independently of the http_persistent option, and can be used with http/1.0 servers as well. The pair of connections is swapped every time a new segment starts downloading, and a request for the next segment is sent on the secondary connection right away. This means the second response will be ready and waiting by the time the current response is fully read. Signed-off-by: Aman Gupta <aman@tmm1.net> Signed-off-by: Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi>
FFmpeg README
FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.
Libraries
libavcodecprovides implementation of a wider range of codecs.libavformatimplements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.libavutilincludes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.libavfilterprovides a mean to alter decoded Audio and Video through chain of filters.libavdeviceprovides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.libswresampleimplements audio mixing and resampling routines.libswscaleimplements color conversion and scaling routines.
Tools
- ffmpeg is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
- ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
- ffprobe is a simple analysis tool to inspect multimedia content.
- ffserver is a multimedia streaming server for live broadcasts.
- Additional small tools such as
aviocat,ismindexandqt-faststart.
Documentation
The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory.
The online documentation is available in the main website and in the wiki.
Examples
Coding examples are available in the doc/examples directory.
License
FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.
Contributing
Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using
git format-patch or git send-email. Github pull requests should be
avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.