[PATCH] Re: [NUT-devel] Freeze NUT spec?

Oded Shimon ods15 at ods15.dyndns.org
Sat Mar 25 14:46:39 CET 2006


On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 03:25:54AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:54:26PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 03:22:56PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 12:06:37PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > > - It's not clear whether limits like max_distance and
> > > > >   max_pts_difference take effect when the difference is > the limit,
> > > > >   or when the difference is >= the limit. This must be specified one
> > > > >   way or the other, and should be consistent between all the limits of
> > > > >   this sort for the sake of simplicity.
> > > > 
> > > > agree
> > > 
> > > OK. Any preference which way? I can make a patch addressing these
> > > issues if you like but it won't be for a couple days.
> > 
> > Patch attached. Hopefully the wording is sufficiently precise without
> > being too pedantic. In particular I updated max_distance to refer to
> > startcodes rather than syncpoints since otherwise it is incorrect in
> > the presence of duplicated headers (it was impossible to satisfy...)
> 
> yeah, the wording is a little harder to understand (actually i reminds me
> of h.264 where later drafts had more and more precisse wording and where
> less and less understandable, the end result was so complex that it often
> needs to be read 3-4 times before you figure out what is acually meant from
> a high level point of view
> 
> but here i think your version is better then what is in cvs ATM ...

Committed. Spec can use a cleaning up in regards to understandiblity 
anyway.

- ods15




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