Talk:Myth Protocol/Guide

Comments about the "Starting the File Transfer" section

This is all from memory and i haven't studied this part of the mythtv source in a while.

The "problem" with REQUEST_BLOCK command is that you don't get a reply to the command until the backend have send all the data. So what you have to do is send the REQUEST_BLOCK command, begin reading from the data socket until you get a response to the REQUEST_BLOCK command and then you know how much more data you need to read.

So don't wait for a response to the REQUEST_BLOCK command before starting to read the data. If you do and you requested a lot of data the backend will timeout and complain in the backend log.

For an example of how i solved this in my directshow filters take a look at this link
--TobbeJ 11:05, 10 July 2007 (UTC)