[vlc] Re: VLC vs QoS

[Pablo Andrés Orellana Vega]

ok Thnx!!!

regards!
Pablo O.

2007/2/15, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com>:
>
> Pablo Andrés Orellana Vega wrote:
> > sorry i dont understant the "lite"....
>
> It's a variant of UDP that lets peers say that only part of the packet
> is covered by the checksum.  In regular UDP, the entire packet is
> covered by the checksum, so that if even one bit is damaged, the whole
> packet is discarded.
>
> This is useful in streaming media programs like VLC because if the
> damage is only in the media payload area (as opposed to RTP headers and
> such), it's usually better to pass it through as-is than to drop it.  If
> you drop the whole packet, you get a big blip in the stream, but if you
> let a small bit of media corruption through, the blip might not even be
> noticed.
>
> Read this for more info:
>
>         http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/1999/HPL-IRI-1999-001.pdf
>
> (It's the fourth result in a Google search for "UDP-lite".  Hint, hint.)
>
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