The record file was written from the stream thread. As a consequence,
any blocking I/O to write the file delayed the decoder.
For maximum performance even when recording is enabled, send
(refcounted) packets to a separate recording thread.
To packetize the H.264 raw stream, av_parser_parse2() (called by
av_read_frame()) knows that it has received a full frame only after it
has received some data for the next frame. As a consequence, the client
always waited until the next frame before sending the current frame to
the decoder!
On the device side, we know packets boundaries. To reduce latency,
make the device always transmit the "frame meta" to packetize the stream
manually (it was already implemented to send PTS, but only enabled on
recording).
On the client side, replace av_read_frame() by manual packetizing and
parsing.
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50682518/replacing-av-read-frame-to-reduce-delay>
<https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/3354>
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