[NUT-devel] Info Packets

[Oded Shimon]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 06:47:13PM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 03:42:11PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > maybe a system we both would like is to add a list of streams and start/stop
> > times at the top of every info packet, so that the packet applies to
> > (streamX + StreamY + ... + StreamZ) at the time intervals 
> > (startX..endX + startY..EndY + ... + startZ..EndZ)
> > 
> > and require that every 2 info packes with the same streams and intervalls be
> > identical
> > 
> > that would avoid the chapter limitation your system introduces and it doesnt
> > make info packets depend on each other which means simpler parsing and
> > more error robustness
> 
> Do we really need the ability to specify regions smaller/seperate from
> chapters? I fail to see the usefulness of this... Even mkv doesn't have 
> such an ability, and they are the bloated tag-info experts...
> Maybe we can make a 'chapterid=-1' or whatever that means it's not any 
> chapter, it's some subregion. it has the disadvantage of having to allow 
> several packets with the same "chapterid"..

Alternative, chapterid=-1,-2,... each subregion has a new id. (the only 
reason negative values are special, they can overlap real chapters with 
positive id's..)

This only works if we agree to dump the bitmask...

I preffer simplicity over compactness for the info packets...

- ods15