On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Kevin C. Almeroth wrote: > >>On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > >>> > >>> As long as we're bitching about the network: would it be possible to > >>> start doing some unicast streaming of sessions in the future? Access to > >>> multicast hasn't gotten significantly better the past decade, but > >>> streaming over unicast is now routine as the codecs are so much better > >>> these days, as is typical access bandwidth. I'll happily take 40 kbps > >>> MPEG-4 audio only; the video is so badly out of sync that it is > >>> unwatchable most of the time anyway. > >> > >>if you want to show up with encoders I'll give you an audio/video feed... > >>then you can baby your boxes and not go to any meeting you want all week > >>just like me. I would be able lot cheaper and less work if the multicast > >>folks just paid to go to the meeting like normal people. > > Actually, I'm not even sure I agree with this. The reason is because if > we had more than a handful of people watching remotely, it would add quite > a bit of congestion to the network link. > > So, if you are willing to be sent a unicast stream and then provide the > bandwidth to replicate it to everyone else in the world who wants it by > unicast, then I think we have a doable solution.
I'm sorry I sort of assumed that would be necessary for anything beyond minimal bitrates... We source around 6Mb/s from the ietf, even the sources we reflect to other multicast streams (like the ssm sources) we do from some location off of the conference network, such as the UO. > -kevin > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
