[vdr] Re: packet size of recordings

[Harald Milz <hm@seneca.muc.de>]

Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de> wrote:
> But beware, for NFS on top of UDP larger rsize, wsize means that there
> is more ip fragmentation and when a fragment is lost the complete nfs
> block has to be retransmitted. As the poll() used by the playback thread
> doesn't work for NFS files, you may see this retransmits at the screen.

So what would be a good tradeoff? 4K? I thought 8K was better but you have
a point here. 

NFS over TCP might be an alternative, though. In this case lost packets are
handled in the TCP layer. 

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