writehaltchunk

Writes a HALT control chunk.

Synopsis

writehaltchunk <stream_time> <subscriber_id>

Description

Writehaltchunk writes a HALT control chunk to the output stream. The result is a halt chunk keyed to a specified subscriber for a given stream time.

The chunk sent to the subscriber at halt time has the subtype HALT. It prevents the streamer thread from delivering data to any subscriber until a reply is received from the specified subscriber.

This essentially provides the specified subscriber with time to process its data while no other data are arriving from the streamer thread.

Arguments

stream_time
0 to 7FFFFFFF (hex)
subscriber_id
4-byte characters describing the subscriber type (e.g. FILM, CTRL, SNDS)

Caveats

None.