[MPlayer-dev-eng] Flaming NUT

[Jan Knutar]

On Wednesday 05 May 2004 00:38, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:25:25PM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
> > > This belongs in the PROTOCOL, not the file format. They are two
> > > entirely separate layers.
> >
> > Despite the above actually being the sane thing, it seems most
> > don't actually want it. They want the ability to just forget about
> > retransmitting B frames, and even outright disgusting things that
> > produce much same results as -hardframedrop.
>
> That's what will happen with NUT if you don't have a reliable
> transmission layer, so either way these people have what they want.

Aye, that leaves the "drop packets intelligently" people out in the 
cold, though. Refering to those who define intelligently in this 
context as "only B frames", and not "pause and fill cache then resume 
play" intelligently :)