[NUT-devel] Another suggestion for broadcast [PATCH]

[Måns Rullgård]

Nico Sabbi wrote:
> On Monday 11 February 2008 16:41:39 Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>
>> buffer_fullness, transmit_ts and all of the others are equivalent
>> One can be found from the other if you know assumed-bitrate,
>> actual-bitrate and timestamps.
>
>
> but if you lose packets at the first recovery:
> -with the buffer_fullness method you may or may not reach
> the required buffer size (and possibly not flush, that may not
> be what the sender expects the receiver to do)
> - whereas with transmit_ts you are sure that you have
> to flush all packets with dts < transmit_ts, whatever
> size they actually amount to

Good point.  I hadn't thought of this problem.

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