Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:59:38 +0100 (CET) From: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> To: Tim Pozar <pozar@lns.com> Cc: torstenb@vmunix.org, Thomas Runge <runge@rostock.zgdv.de>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RTP vs. HTTP as streaming protocol, SMIL Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011101955090.1512-100000@moritz.alleswirdgelber> In-Reply-To: <20001109132515.A95823@lns.com>
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> Chicken and the egg. ISPs need to deploy it. Customers will then > ask for it. They don't feel your pain. > > As for the amount of time it takes to learn and maintain an > MCAST/MBONE link... I have been connected since '96 and it is pretty > easy to set up (mrouted or other methods) and maintain. Admititly > there is a reliability problem as the MBONE is a bit lossy and it > does go up and down. Players like Realplayer can be set up to try > multicast and then fall back to unicast so outages are less of a > problem. Dont know much about mbone. On a larger scale. But from what I have read, its a multitude of apps, maybe some crying for their MIME type ;-), that must be mixed into a concept. One thing that came to mind was teleconferencing and decision making. How can you make decisions, that are legaly binding ? On a share holders conference or whatever. I think shareholders conferences are a big thing in the moment. H. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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