Stream corrupt error and then rtmpdump goes nuts

Neill Mitchell neill at nlkmitchell.com
Wed Jan 9 10:01:46 EST 2013


Hmm. Just had 2 failures with the same old problem. So it looks like 
upping the low level TCP buffers sizes are not the cure for this. 
Reverted to my tweaked rtmpdump and reliability returns.

Cheers
Neill.
On 09/01/13 10:46, Neill Mitchell wrote:
> Okay, I've played around with the TCP parameters on my Ubuntu 12.10 box.
>
> I've uploaded a script to my dropbox account that tweaks a number of 
> TCP parameters in Ubuntu. Most notably I've increased the receive 
> buffer from 128K to 4MB. Obviously you can tweak this value to suit 
> your available memory. The script needs to be run via sudo as the 
> tweaks need root privileges.
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32483061/set_buffer_size
>
> I'm still testing, but it does seem to improve matters with the stock 
> rtmpdump, so good idea dinkypumpkin!
>
> Cheers
> Neill.
>
>




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