[streaming] Reed Solomon Encoding

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le Thursday 13 March 2008 09:56:46 Fortunato Latella, vous avez écrit :
> You're right, usually Reed Solomon Encription is hardware because it's
> quicker and don't waste resources.
> But i've used some free Reed Solomon ecoders and they're very quick.
> So I just want to add this functionality to VLC.

Well, I see no reason why it would not be do-able, at the codec, demux or 
access level, depending on the implementation detail.

However, I wonder whether it makes any sense: Whether streaming or storing, 
lower-layer checksums resp. error correction mechanism will make upper-layer 
error correction impossible resp. redundant.

What is the expected use case?

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Rémi Denis-Courmont