[vlc] Re: Sequence of UDP packets important ?

[Christophe Massiot]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002, Marc Van Riet wrote:

> We're using videolan configured to use UDP packets for sending data. 
> These packets are then transmitted over a proprietory network to a 
> videolan client.
> 
> Is the order in which the UDP packets arrive at the client important ? 
> Maybe the client puts the packets in the right order himselve ? I would 
> expect him to do that, since with UDP/IP there is no guarantee of the 
> order in which packets are received.

Yes we expect packets in the right order. There is no re-ordering
algorithm as yet. We're using VLC on a LAN and re-ordering never happened.
We'd probably need such an algorithm, though.

-- 
Christophe Massiot.
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