Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 19:04:20 +0100 (CET) From: torstenb@vmunix.org (Torsten Blum) To: uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RTP vs. HTTP as streaming protocol, SMIL Message-ID: <m13tZa8-000OT8C@onizuka.vmunix.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011072231260.763-100000@moritz.alleswirdgelber>
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In freebsd-multimedia you write: >Hi, I was surfing on the SMIL page of www.w3.org, I saw that the main >activists are Apple and Real. On Apples website in the Quicktime >section there is a language as if streaming with http is impossible. Then >they suggest tunneling in http in certain cases, in the Quicktime Player >preferences. [...] >Is there any thruth in that language ? Doing any streaming with unicast it pointless. Think about radio or video (most streams are radio or video these days). The more popular it is, the more bandwidth/server horsepower you need. It doesnt even scale well. Think about the Bandwidth you need for only 500 "listeners". But since since most suits and other clueless people think that Internet == WWW = HTTP they won't even notice the existance of multicasting. I work for a major ISP in Germany and I can count the number of customers asking for multicast uplink on one hand. Heck, even the number of multicast enabled ISPs could probably be counted with one hand. Well... -tb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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