Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> writes:
This is unrelated. For sockets, surely you would not want to send unrelated, irrelevant-to-the-recipient data; it's just a waste of bandwidth. Where the issue comes in is with broadcast channels over unidirectional links where all recipients receive the same content and the physical channel's bandwidth is large enough for multiple programs. It's really the fault of the hardware and protocol layers for not already partitioning such channels into multiple virtual channels. If they were going to switch to NUT (which I don't see them doing regardless of what idiotic tailored-to-their-broken-systems features we bloat NUT up with) they could just as well add a proper protocol layer for channel partitioning at the same time.
There are standards for IP over MPEG-TS. One could supposedly use that for NUT over RTSP over IP over MPEG-TS... -- Måns Rullgård mans@mansr.com