[MPlayer-dev-eng] more NUT questions

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 02:45:26AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Solution 2.
> > Write forward/backward pointers so they point to the next packet that
> > have such pointers. This will require to buffer of all frames (type 0/1)
> wrong, type 1 have a packet header and a backward pointer, only type 0 must be 
> buffered, and again, u complain but u dont suggest an alternative, its easy 
> to say buffering sucks, but if u dont ever buffer anything u cannot store any 
> forward pointers, so u would always have to search for the next startcode, 
> but thats just what u didnt like above

I did suggest an alternative, because I believe buffering sucks. Have
forward pointers always point to the next packet of any type, and only
backwards pointers point to the previous packet with a header.

Rich