[vdr] Re: packet size of recordings

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Rene Bartsch wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Klaus Schmidinger" <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>
> To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 6:09 PM
> Subject: [vdr] Re: packet size of recordings
> 
> > Johannes Schoeller wrote:
> > >
> > > hi all!
> > >
> > > i want to optimize the transfer rate of my nfs based client (=vdr)
> server
> > > solution.
> > > so my question is: what's the size of the packets transferred by VDR.
> > >
> > > maybe the question is not asked right for network pros. :) so to make it
> a
> > > bit clear: i want to read BIG files. but i don't read them at one, but
> in
> > > small chunks. (more like streaming). and i would like to know how big
> these
> > > chunks are.
> >
> > Take a look at VDR/remux.c. It produces packets of at most 2048 byte.
> > But not all packets necessarily have that size, they may as well be
> smaller.
> >
> 
> Does that mean you can influence packet-size by few changes in remux.c?
> 
> Setting the packet-size to VOB-compliant value would make it unnecessary to
> repack for creating DVDs.
> 
> This would be great ...

You could try that by changing the value in remux.c. But be aware that this
is only the _maximum_ packet size - there may as well be smaller packets.

Klaus
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