Hi!
Aman Gupta kirjoitti 2017-12-13 02:35:
From: Aman Gupta <a...@tmm1.net>
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.
Thanks, seems like an OK idea and the code seems straight-forward.
Why is this a defaults-to-disabled option, instead of defaulting to
enabled or just not having an option at all?
I guess there may be a good reason, but I'd like to hear your thoughts
on that.
---
doc/demuxers.texi | 3 +++
libavformat/hls.c | 51
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/demuxers.texi b/doc/demuxers.texi
index 18ff7101ac..f2181fbb93 100644
--- a/doc/demuxers.texi
+++ b/doc/demuxers.texi
@@ -319,6 +319,9 @@ Default value is 1000.
@item http_persistent
Use persistent HTTP connections. Applicable only for HTTP streams.
+
+@item http_multiple
+Use multiple HTTP connections for downloading HTTP segments.
@end table
@section image2
diff --git a/libavformat/hls.c b/libavformat/hls.c
index f75c8f5eaa..487fa9a82f 100644
--- a/libavformat/hls.c
+++ b/libavformat/hls.c
[...]
@@ -1426,11 +1440,20 @@ reload:
if (ret)
return ret;
- ret = open_input(c, v, seg, &v->input);
+ if (c->http_multiple && v->input_next_requested) {
+ AVIOContext *tmp = v->input;
+ v->input = v->input_next;
+ v->input_next = tmp;
Use FFSWAP().
[...]
--
Anssi Hannula
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