Viewerframe Mode Upd

When a "viewerframe mode upd" event fires, what is actually happening inside the RAM and CPU of your machine?

If you see this message spamming your log file every second, it usually indicates a rapid oscillation (flapping) between two modes—for example, buffering and playing. If you see it once, it is just a normal audit trail.

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    • Some developers who build custom wrappers around FFmpeg for multi-source streaming use "viewerframe" as a class name to manage decoded frames. An update to the mode might trigger a reinitialization of the decoding pipeline. viewerframe mode upd