[NUT-devel] Broadcasting nuts [PATCH]

[Måns Rullgård]

Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:41:22PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> The main/stream headers are just needed once, if i switch channels around,
>> i already have them after a few minutes for all channels. And wont want to
>> wait for them ...
>
> After a few minutes? Normally I want to see the video within 0.5 sec
> of selecting a channel, not a few minutes later... If a viewer can
> turn on the receiving device/program and begin watching at any moment,
> infrequent header repetition simply does not work.

The satellite receivers I work with require a few minutes at power-on
to collect some information about the channels.  Once that is done,
channel switching is fast.  Under normal operation the receiver is
never powered down, only the outputs are switched off, so this setup
delay is rarely experienced by the user.

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