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

[Nico Sabbi]

On Monday 11 February 2008 17:15:20 Måns Rullgård wrote:
> 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.

I think that if MPEG specs included a history of experiments and
a list of motivations for their choices they would be a bit
less frowned upon, although just a little bit less :)