[NUT-devel] Issues

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:44:49PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:52:12PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:33:43PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
> > > Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > > 
> > > > [...]
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Sorry to be me, but... nut is JUST for stored content, and before
> > > someone start telling about http, well it is just serving a file over
> > > tcp, it isn't streaming at all.
> > > 
> > > Could that make the issue die as it should long before? or is somebody
> > > is really thinking about streaming NUT over udp making sure each packet
> > > is contained in an udp packet?
> > > 
> > > Nut is good as backing store since it gives you all the informations you
> > > need for streaming (using rtp, for example).
> > 
> > well, i am certainly not against droping all the "realtime streaming" stuff
> > objections, comments anyone, rich?
> 
> Hmm, are you saying to completely remove nut-internal support for
> variable info data embedded in the file, and instead have this at a
> higher level transport layer, if at all? I would be strongly in favor
> of that.

yes, though i would like to keep the option to add variable info in a later
version of nut (so maybe say muxers MUST not change info but demuxers MUST
accept it and use the last info packet they stumble across)

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-- 
Michael