voxl-streamer disconnecting live connection

jcai

Unsure if the following is expected behaviour, but I doubt it is.

Reproduce:

Start voxl-streamer listening to hires_front_small_encoded
Connect to the stream (e.g., ffplay -i rtsp://<voxl ip>:<port>/live)
Confirm that the stream looks good
Disconnect from the stream (CTRL-C the ffplay command)
Within 60 seconds, re-run the same ffplay command
Observe that the stream looks good but will freeze within 60 seconds (e.g., the command is restarted 15 seconds after initially closing the connection. The new stream will freeze after 45 seconds
Observe that voxl-streamer outputs Removed 1 sessions
Disconnect from the new stream (CTRL-C ffplay)
Observe that voxl-streamer outputs Removed 1 sessions again after 60 seconds

Based on behaviour and source code, what I think is happening:
When the first connection is closed, voxl-streamer detects this and decrements the number of clients. However, it takes 60 seconds for the gstreamer session to time out and close. During this time, if another client connects, there are now 2 gstreamer sessions and 1 voxl-streamer client. 60 seconds after the first connection is closed, the inactive gstreamer session is cleaned up. Since voxl-streamer doesn't know that this session was already inactive, when it closes, voxl-streamer decrements its number of clients even though the one client it has still has an active gstreamer session.

Alex Kushleyev

@jcai, I just tested this. I do see that "Removed 1 sessions" message comes in after ~1 min after the first disconnect, but my second session is not interrupted when this happens.

Please make sure you are using the latest version of voxl-streamer (you can try from nightly dev build). Also, something to double check, whether the two sessions are coming from the same or different port (maybe if you are using vpn or something, there new session starts from the same client port).

Alex