[NUT-devel] revisions for nut-english.txt?

Måns Rullgård mans at mansr.com
Mon Feb 4 22:39:04 CET 2008


Rich Felker <dalias at 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...

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Måns Rullgård
mans at mansr.com



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