> When people talk about streamng do they mean the continous transfer of a > potentially infinitely big document (like a continous radio transmission) or > do they mean the hopefully real time transfer of a finite size document (I
I mean the former. I've decided to stop calling it streaming, though, and to call it dynamic versus static content because that is what I really mean, the fact that the size cannot be determined ahead of time. I think we need to design the protocol for both finite data and data of an undetermined size. As far as streaming finite documents goes, that's mostly a matter of the client. If it can open and display the file as it's coming in, then that's basically streaming it. We might need to make some optimizations to make doing things like playing MP3s from Freenet fast enough, but maybe not. We'll see when some integrates a streaming MP3 player in a client. But there's not protocol or architecturla change to make. _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
