Re: Minimum working value of engine.buffers.video_num_buffers for various video streams (HD, in particular)?

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Darren Salt
<[email protected]> wrote:
> It was mentioned in #xine that the default engine.buffers.video_num_buffers
> value (500) is too low for HD DVB streams.
>
> One clip which I downloaded (slightly broken, due to bad reception) requires
> that this be set to 1000, and I'm told that there's a live stream which
> requires this to be set to 1500.
>
> If anybody can test this and report back whether a higher value is
> *required*, that would be useful for the next release.

I watch both 720p and 1080i HD channels fine with the following:

# number of video buffers
# numeric, default: 500
#engine.buffers.video_num_buffers:500

# default number of video frames
# numeric, default: 15
engine.buffers.video_num_frames:22

That being said, this is surely a case of YMMY.

Best regards,
Derek

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