[aravis] Re: Aravis 0.2.0 in sight

  • From: Emmanuel Pacaud <emmanuel@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: aravis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 22:05:27 +0200

Le vendredi 10 août 2012 à 13:36 +0200, John Stowers a écrit :
> > 
> > No complains from me, but a couple of feature requests:
> > * Setting the camera packet size based on the MTU of the network interface 
> > it is connected to
> 
> Agree-ish, although picking an MTU based on the MTU of the attached
> interface can be just as fragile if you have switches in the middle that
> do not handle jumbo frames.
> 
> I would like this to be explicit, rather than invisible and automatic.
> 
> Something like a gobject construction parameter, where the default is
> 1400, and -ve numbers or zero mean "determine automatically".

It's already possible to set the packet size, why would you add another
way to set it up ?

The interface MTU check is interesting though, it's just I've yet to
find a way to reliably know which it the interface used for the video
stream.

        Emmanuel.


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