On 06.12.2011 15:19, Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 01:01:43PM +0100, Andreas Oberritter wrote: >> On 06.12.2011 12:21, Mark Brown wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 09:41:38PM +0100, Andreas Oberritter wrote: > >>>> Are you serious? Lower networking layers should be transparent to the >>>> upper layers. You don't implement VPN or say TCP in all of your >>>> applications, do you? These are just some more made-up arguments which >>>> don't have anything to do with the use cases I explained earlier. > >>> For real time applications it does make a big difference - decisions >>> taken at the application level can greatly impact end application >>> performance. For example with VoIP on a LAN you can get great audio > >> Can you please explain how this relates to the topic we're discussing? > > Your assertatation that applications should ignore the underlying > transport (which seems to be a big part of what you're saying) isn't > entirely in line with reality. Did you notice that we're talking about a very particular application? VoIP really is totally off-topic. The B in DVB stands for broadcast. There's only one direction in which MPEG payload is to be sent (using RTP for example). You can't just re-encode the data on the fly without loss of information. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
