[NUT-devel] r21189 - trunk/DOCS/tech/nut.txt

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 04:30:02PM -0800, Ralph Giles wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 01:17:18AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> > no, there where some disscussions about compressing them by using a table
> > of "common" types/values in a header and then using just numbers instead of
> > strings but we didnt find a solution which everyone agreed to
> 
> What about running all the fields together and compressing the blob 
> with deflate, like the PNG zTXT chunk?

dependancy on zlib, and zlib is likely bigger then the demuxer
furthermore if we compress each info packet seperately then deflate
will likely not be very efficient, if we compress all info packets
together then one damaged info packet would cause all info packets
afterwards to be lost, and this also wont work with "midstream" info
packets

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