I am developing a player which open rtsp stream using Live555 and using FFMPEG to decode video stream. I am stuck at a point, where IDR frame is getting lost over the network, so that after decoding its successor B/P frames, it shows a jittering effect in video. It gives a very bad performance in video.
So my question is, How can I handle I-frame packet loss? I would like to know if there is any strategy/algorithm to handle packet loss, so that video should be smooth or clear.
Well, once an I-frame is lost, it's lost. You can't really do anything on the client side. The only way we could attack this problem was to configure the server (ie: streamer) in a way that it will send either more frequently I-frames (ie: MORE I-frames in a stream) or more infrequent I-frames (ie_ LESS I-frames in the stream) (if you use ffmpeg/libx264 it can be fine tuned to an incredible level of precision when to send I-frames).