[NUT-devel] NUT version bump

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 10:48:43PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> On 05/04/2013 01:02 PM, Luca Barbato wrote:
> > While updating my notes I noticed we are using version 3 to generate
> > something that does not contain the main_flags.
> > 
> > (Yes somewhere I have patches to support BROADCAST_MODE and I'm thinking
> > about introducing an unseekable PIPE_MODE dropping syncpoints completely)
> 
> Since the broadcast mode had never been used in the wild I'd change the
> definition of the additional timestamp so it is the actual wallclock
> epoch. This way provides a mean to know the overall latency and not just
> knowing the packet skew/jitter.

interresting idea.

I would suggest the following:
* leave the transmit_ts as it is
* add a field to the main header that contains the wallclock transmit
  time corresponding to the transmit_ts == 0

This should avoid the need to bump the version, improving
compatibility as old demuxers will be able to read it (they would
reject VERSION>3)

Its more space efficient than storing a full wallclock timestamp as
the 0 based timestamps would be smaller in value and take up fewer
bytes

Thanks

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