[MPlayer-dev-eng] More on timestamps in NUT

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 12:05:52AM +0300, Ville Saari wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 12:51:08PM -0400, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> > A couple notes on sync point timestamps: Given 3 time bases b1, b2,
> > and b3, and two timestamps t1 and t2 in time bases b1 and b2
> > respectively, it is not necessarily possible to choose a timestamp t3
> > in base b3 such that t1 <= t3 <= t2. Thus, the existing monotonicity
> > rule can't apply to sync point timestamps in arbitrary timebase.
> 
> It can - you just need to mux the sync packet in the correct slot.

Then you can't meet the max_distance rule, which is much more
important (because it's needed for error resilience).

Rich