From 43da4c0ecaf23ebb7b282bdfe3b5c6bfc3ab6c41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Max Kellermann Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 20:34:45 +0100 Subject: input/mms: limit the mmsx_read() size --- src/input/plugins/MmsInputPlugin.cxx | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'src/input') diff --git a/src/input/plugins/MmsInputPlugin.cxx b/src/input/plugins/MmsInputPlugin.cxx index 1aed9c662..df291bc84 100644 --- a/src/input/plugins/MmsInputPlugin.cxx +++ b/src/input/plugins/MmsInputPlugin.cxx @@ -92,6 +92,13 @@ input_mms_open(const char *url, size_t MmsInputStream::ThreadRead(void *ptr, size_t read_size, Error &error) { + /* unfortunately, mmsx_read() blocks until the whole buffer + has been filled; to avoid big latencies, limit the size of + each chunk we read to a reasonable size */ + constexpr size_t MAX_CHUNK = 16384; + if (read_size > MAX_CHUNK) + read_size = MAX_CHUNK; + int nbytes = mmsx_read(nullptr, mms, (char *)ptr, read_size); if (nbytes <= 0) { if (nbytes < 0) -- cgit v1.2.3