How to reduce VLC buffering time when video starts??

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How to reduce VLC buffering time when video starts??

Postby kapoorsudhish » 06 Sep 2013 14:15

Hi All,

I am doing RTP streaming using VLC but the video does not start to play till the time the data gets buffered for 10-secs. Can the initial buffering be reduced from 10 sec to ~3sec, the problem persists if the data starts to buffer in between also where the video is not smooth and start to buffer for long time.


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Sudhish.

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Re: How to reduce VLC buffering time when video starts??

Postby fkuehne » 06 Sep 2013 15:30

The following should be your friend in this case:

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--network-caching <Integer [0 .. 60000]>
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Re: How to reduce VLC buffering time when video starts??

Postby kapoorsudhish » 10 Sep 2013 11:46

Thanks for the reply Felix, but how can this be called using an API because i am using VLC libraries for streaming??

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Re: How to reduce VLC buffering time when video starts??

Postby fkuehne » 11 Sep 2013 12:30

The following code should do:

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NSArray* options = @[@"--network-caching=[0 .. 60000]"]; VLCMediaPlayer * mediaPlayer = [[VLCMediaPlayer alloc] initWithOptions:options];
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Re: How to reduce VLC buffering time when video starts??

Postby kapoorsudhish » 12 Sep 2013 07:16

Thanks for the help Felix :)


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