Charles Xavier wrote:
> If anyone has attempted to download anything in the 8GB range, you'll
> find that well.. if you're missing enough parts of the file, the par2
> recovery can be a painful, painful process taking up to three hours in
> some cases.
> The XBOX 360 doesn't play x.264 and all the good movies are in x.264.
> Converting from x.264 to h.264 could be done offboard on an FPGA
I have a hard time believing that those are the "two most annoying
problems
on usenet". I've been using Usenet since 1984, and I've never personally
encountered either problem.
I've never tried to download an 8GB file from Usenet, and don't have any
clue why anyone would want to do such a thing. There are much better
ways to distributed 8GB files. But if I *did* want to download an 8GB
file from Usenet, I can't imagine that waiting three hours for a
reconstruction of missing pieces would really bother me that much.
There's never been a single thing that I've needed from Usenet so
urgently that it couldn't have waited three more hours.
I watch a fair number of movies, but I've never had any problem with
x.264. It sounds like you just need better player software. That has
nothing to do with Usenet.
Since it doesn't appear that there is any real problem here, it also
doesn't appear that there is any need for an FPGA-based "solution".
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