[NUT-devel] Broadcast sufficiency - my assumptions/reasoning/design for it

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:43:21PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:40:53PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > Also this would only solve ONE single problem brought up. Your design
> > > still leaves the preload time up to pure luck.
> > 
> > If you really need to know a minimum preload time, put it in a
> > protocol header or in the spec for the broadcast constraints.
> 
> An info packet field for bitrate information, including minimum
> preload, would be totally acceptable too if you like.

The preload changes depending on buffer fullness thus is not constant
over a stream.

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