[vlc-devel] Re: New Patch for RTSP offset feature.

[Rob Casey]

> Talking about Amino - well, proper support of standars has 
> never been the case with them. When one of our local service 
> providers tried to convince them to support TS in RTP (since 
> TS in raw UDP is utterly flawed in principles), they simply 
> didn't care any bit.

The thing is that it's not just Amino at fault here. I've seen the same
with a number of IPTV STB manufacturers and unsurprisingly invariably it
comes down to the numbers where developing a client around raw UDP
rather than RTP is more acceptable in implementation and maintenance
cost.

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Rob
 
 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: vlc-devel-bounce at videolan.org 
> [mailto:vlc-devel-bounce at videolan.org] On Behalf Of Marian Durkovic
> Sent: Sunday, 8 October 2006 5:20 PM
> To: vlc-devel at videolan.org
> Subject: [vlc-devel] Re: New Patch for RTSP offset feature.
> 
> On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 06:50:32PM +0200, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
> > On 5-okt-2006, at 20:30, Ross Finlayson wrote:
> > > (I realize that the
> > >Amino set-top box (RTSP client) implements the same ";offset="  
> > >hack, but that's no excuse for us to break standards also.)
> > 
> > The amino boxes constitute a large part of our users.
> 
> Talking about Amino - well, proper support of standars has 
> never been the case with them. When one of our local service 
> providers tried to convince them to support TS in RTP (since 
> TS in raw UDP is utterly flawed in principles), they simply 
> didn't care any bit.
> 
> 
> 	With kind regards,
> 
> 		M.
> 
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