On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 03:56:27PM +0200, Luca Barbato <lu_z...@gentoo.org>
wrote:
>> when you want to play somehting at a specific (wallclock) time, but your
>> problem sounds more like requiring specific inter-packet delays, in which
>> case an ev_timer would be the right thing (it isn't affected by time jumps).
>
> The problem is that we need both. The rtsp play receives (among the
> other things) a time reference about when to start playing, then you are
> supposed to send packets at variable delays, I just used an ev_periodic
> to do both...
If it works for you, I don't complain. The question is will you be happy
when your program incures delay differences just because somebody (evil
cron) ran ntpdate?
If that's an issue, using a periodic to start a timer to do the job is the
safer thing to do.
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