trying new way to deal with send errors

revid/Revid.go

@@ -383,6 +383,7 @@ func (r *revid) outputClips() {
 	prevTime := now
 	bytes := 0
 	delay := 0
+	errorCount := 0
 	for r.isRunning {
 		// Here we slow things down as much as we can to decrease cpu usage
 		switch {
@@ -401,23 +402,25 @@ func (r *revid) outputClips() {
 			err2 := r.sendClip(clip)
 			r.Log(Debug, "Finished send!")
 
-			for ; err2 != nil; errorCount++ {
-				r.Log(Warning, "Send failed trying again!")
-				// If the clip size is not bigger than the threshold then we classify
-				// it as junk and we don't try to send it off again.
+			if err2 != nil && len(clip) > 11 {
+				// Try and send again
 				err2 = r.sendClip(clip)
-				if err2 == nil {
-					break
-				}
 
-				// So that we don't fill up the log, once we reach the maxSendFailedErrorCount
-				// we will add some delay to slow things down until we have a connection again
-				time.Sleep(time.Duration(sendFailedDelay) * time.Second)
+				// if there's still an error we try and reconnect
+				for err2 != nil {
+					time.Sleep(time.Duration(5)*time.Millisecond)
 					r.Log(Error, err2.Error())
 					if r.config.Output == NativeRtmp {
 						r.rtmpInst.EndSession()
+					}
+					if r.ringBuffer.Full() {
 						r.flushData()
-					err = r.rtmpInst.StartSession()
+					}
+					if r.config.Output == NativeRtmp {
+						r.rtmpInst.StartSession()
+					}
+					// and if the ring buffer is full then we flush the incoming data
+					err2 = r.sendClip(clip)
 				}
 			}
 			// let the ringbuffer know that we're done with the memory we grabbed when

ringbuffer/RingBuffer.go

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ type RingBuffer interface {
 	IsReadable() bool
 	IsWritable() bool
 	GetNoOfElements() int
+	Full() bool
 }
 
 func (rb *ringBuffer) GetNoOfElements() int {
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ type ringBuffer struct {
 	currentlyWriting bool
 	currentlyReading bool
 	mutex            sync.Mutex
+	full bool
 }
 
 /*
@@ -86,6 +88,7 @@ func NewRingBuffer(bufferSize int, elementSize int) (rb *ringBuffer) {
 	rb.currentlyWriting = false
 	rb.currentlyReading = false
 	rb.mutex = sync.Mutex{}
+	rb.full = false
 	return
 }
 
@@ -98,8 +101,10 @@ func (rb *ringBuffer) Get() ([]byte, error) {
 	rb.mutex.Lock()
 	defer rb.mutex.Unlock()
 	if !rb.IsWritable() {
+		rb.full = true
 		return nil, errors.New("Buffer full!")
 	}
+	rb.full = false
 	var nextlast int
 	if !rb.currentlyWriting {
 		rb.currentlyWriting = true
@@ -177,6 +182,10 @@ func (rb *ringBuffer) DoneReading() error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (rb *ringBuffer) Full() bool {
+	return rb.full
+}
+
 /*
 IsReadable returns true if it is possible to read from the buffer, i.e. if
 it is not empty.