questions about buffering and frame drop

[perazim]

I am attempting to use rtmpdump to capture a rtmp stream with video rate of 750kb/s and audio rate of 96 kb/s. Am having trouble with dropped frames or issues with buffer under-runs that manifest in the video stuttering but the audio continues without troubles. My net connection should be adequate to support this rate but due to net congestion it may be under-runing.

What does rtmpdump do in a situation like this? Does it simply wait for the data and continue then writing to file or is there an anomaly introduced into the output stream?

Is there a buffer size option to help in this?

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

Perazim

[perazim]

I am noticing that there is a buffer option:

--buffer|-b Buffer time in milliseconds (default: 36000000)

Is this default correct? 36.000.000 milliseconds is 36.000 seconds a very long time! Could it be microseconds? Then it would be 36 seconds?