Using ev_periodic with a custom loop and a specific start time

[Luca Barbato]

Luca Barbato wrote:
> I'm trying to replace a rtp sender loop with libev using ev_periodic.
> It should start at a given time and since then it should output a packet 
> depending on the time previous packet takes to be played (this is an 
> rtsp/rtp server).
> 

After digging a bit seems apparent that ev_periodic suffer starvation 
since the latest event reschedule is always the first trigged (making 
the others starve). I'm using it wrongly, is ev_periodic supposed to 
behave this way or is there a bug?

lu


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Luca Barbato
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