From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Nov 10 12:15:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDCB037B4C5 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:15:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p92.dialin.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.92]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA94768; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 21:11:48 +0100 Received: from moritz (uzs106@moritz [10.0.0.4]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA01529; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:59:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 19:59:38 +0100 (CET) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: Tim Pozar Cc: torstenb@vmunix.org, Thomas Runge , freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RTP vs. HTTP as streaming protocol, SMIL In-Reply-To: <20001109132515.A95823@lns.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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