[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] rtsp protocol : teardown packet not sent

Michael Niedermayer michael at niedermayer.cc
Tue Oct 20 15:50:36 CEST 2015


On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 10:13:29PM +0200, Nicolas Adenis-Lamarre wrote:
> The rtsp protocol requires the client to send a packet at the end of the
> connexion.
> FFmpeg basic network function check wether the user aborted the
> communication and don't send the packet in this case.
> So the protocol is not respected.
> This commit removes the check. An other possibility would have to add an
> extra parameter to these functions to force the packet sending.

When the rt*p code and the connection is correctly functioning
then ff_check_interrupt() will return 0
When the code gets stuck due to the network connection or other
side failing then ff_check_interrupt() can return non zero if the
user application wants to get control back in a last ditch effort
before killing the process or thread.

Now i do no know enough to say what the problem is exactly
maybe this is a bug in the user application and it simply should not
use the interrupt callback to terminate things
or maybe the application has a good reason why it needs to use this
method, in which case maybe the API is too limited to indicate that
clean termination is requested instead of imedeate abortion of all
transfers.
If this is due to limitations of the API then extending the API is
welcome but it should be done in a way that doesnt break existing
user applications
I belive the patch here would break the case where a actual hard and
interruption is wanted because maybe all network communication would
timeout due to network being down or such

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