[NUT-devel] Patch for info packets

[Oded Shimon]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 01:39:00AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:18:32PM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> > New patch. One kink left to sort out is info frames. My suggestion for it 
> > is to use negative chapter id's..
> > 
> > Can I commit this patch?
> 
> ok

committed, with one additional clause:
+Info SHOULD be stored in global packets instead of info streams/frames if
+possible, and the amount of data is not large.

Taken from Michael's phrasing a while ago...

Now, my idea for info frames - exactly the same as info packets. The pts 
for info frames is completely meaningless, it's only there to be able to 
comply to MN rule, so there can be repeated info frames, that describe the 
same "chapter", and you can see that they are the same info frame because 
they have the same chapter id, which means they must be binary identical.

Nothing to modify in spec for this, but should probably be hinted that this 
is the way to do it...

- ods15