Re: [Linphone-developers] iOS redraw issues

[Ramon Poca]

FYI, found what it is, and it might be considered a (ipad3/retina caused?) bug.

In mediastreamer2, in iosdisplay.m:168:
166         // schedule rendering
167         displayLink = [self.window.screen
displayLinkWithTarget:self selector
    :@selector(drawView:)];
168         [displayLink setFrameInterval:1];
169         [displayLink addToRunLoop:[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop]
forMode:NSDefaul
    tRunLoopMode];

The frame interval is set to 1, this means to refresh the video view
every screen refresh. If the screen refresh rate is 60Hz, then it's
forcing to keep a 60fps refresh rate.

In the iPad3 this causes either the decoder or the renderer to lag
behind, and causes the stale images.

The solution has been to lower the FrameInterval. To 4 works for us As
the  remote video is encoded at about 10-15fps there is no noticeable
loss or jerkiness.

168         [displayLink setFrameInterval:4];

The right fix might be to detect the display dpi and knowing the
expected fps to set the most acceptable refresh rate. That might need
a bit of research though.

Ramon Poca

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Ramon Poca <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm having a problem with linphone views on iOS. I have some UI
> elements on top of them, under a different view. While the local
> camera view refreshes inmediately, the remote video view does lag from
> time to time. Sometimes flows, sometimes gets stuck.
>
> The curious thing is, if  any of the overlapping UI elements is
> redrawn, the remote is refreshed inmediately but gets stuck again. So
> the video has been received and the problem seems to be that either
> the redraw event is not sent to the view.
>
> Can anyone offer some hint?
>