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Commit 1f0eaa02 authored by Aman Gupta's avatar Aman Gupta
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avformat/hls: add http_multiple option


This improves network throughput of the hls demuxer by avoiding
the latency introduced by downloading segments one at a time.

The problem is particularly noticable over high-latency network
connections: for instance, if RTT is 250ms, there will a 250ms idle
period between when one segment response is read and the next one
starts.

The obvious solution to this is to use HTTP pipelining, where a
second request can be sent (on the persistent http/1.1 connection)
before the first response is fully read. Unfortunately the way the
http protocol is implemented in avformat makes implementing pipleining
very complex.

Instead, this commit simulates pipelining using two separate persistent
http connections. This has the advantage of working independently of
the http_persistent option, and can be used with http/1.0 servers as
well. The pair of connections is swapped every time a new segment starts
downloading, and a request for the next segment is sent on the secondary
connection right away. This means the second response will be ready and
waiting by the time the current response is fully read.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAman Gupta <aman@tmm1.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@iki.fi>
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