[MPlayer-dev-eng] Flaming NUT

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:50:17AM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 May 2004 00:38, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:25:25PM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
> > > > This belongs in the PROTOCOL, not the file format. They are two
> > > > entirely separate layers.
> > >
> > > Despite the above actually being the sane thing, it seems most
> > > don't actually want it. They want the ability to just forget about
> > > retransmitting B frames, and even outright disgusting things that
> > > produce much same results as -hardframedrop.
> >
> > That's what will happen with NUT if you don't have a reliable
> > transmission layer, so either way these people have what they want.
> 
> Aye, that leaves the "drop packets intelligently" people out in the 
> cold, though. Refering to those who define intelligently in this 
> context as "only B frames", and not "pause and fill cache then resume 
> play" intelligently :)

But does the container need to know anything about them? IMO not. The
streaming server app can take care of it.

Rich