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<h2 class="section"><a href="ffmpeg-protocols.html#toc-udp">3.37 udp</a></h2>

<p>User Datagram Protocol.
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<p>The required syntax for an UDP URL is:
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<pre class="example">udp://<var>hostname</var>:<var>port</var>[?<var>options</var>]
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<p><var>options</var> contains a list of &amp;-separated options of the form <var>key</var>=<var>val</var>.
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<p>In case threading is enabled on the system, a circular buffer is used
to store the incoming data, whi