[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/tech mpcf.txt,1.67,1.68

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 20:06:14 -0500
D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
[...]
> 
> there's also the idea we had while arguing with ivan and others, of
> making a separate 'nut recovery' file that would contain all the
> packet headers but not data, and that could be distributed to repair
> corrupt files. if we made a spec for such a thing, it could also serve
> as an external-index file and be stored alongside the nut file for
> applications with slow-media..
> 
> rich
> 

Just for the protocol. I was against separate files!
I know rich's secret plan includes dropping these files so nobody can find them when they are needed.

Anyway nice to see some of my ideas getting there through the back door :)
More comments/flames later.